Awesome and Cheap Comforter Set!!

cheap?

but I did think of our crafty mamas here when I saw an actual patch comforter at Target.

 

yeah.. the rest of the country (and world, given this is an international list) is just country bumpkins with no high priced malls.
Honey, I grew up in the land of overpriced excess for the sake of excess, Dallas & Houston. Home to Needless-Markup, er, Nieman Marcus. I live a commuter train ride away from the highest priced malls in Colorado, Park Meadows and Cherry Creek (hey, Cherry Creek has always been about gold! it was the site of the original Colorado gold find)
We have Aspen not too far away. So, I understand the local economy being pitched at a higher price.

but you know what? my duvet cover was $30, new. Sure, my sweetie dyed it and his dyed covers (usually queen size, ours is simply a full) sell for $500.


as for the dyes in your OP, unless you are buying from the Mid East in a bazaar situation, dyes are chemical, not organic in base.
cochineal is almost exclusively used in the food market because of it's price, to move it into fiber and textile would be prohibitively expensive.
Woolrich uses aniline dyes. I explain them in our tie dye threads.
in short, 99.9 percent of textile dyes are not animal or insect derived.