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There's this common trope that medieval peasant clothing was all drab sackcloth. It was actually usually vibrantly dyed, and ACOUP goes into this in considerable detail:

https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t...

Likewise, medieval houses were often painted with local dyes, like Falu red in the Nordics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red