Those patches were all during the implementation/transition of/to Luclin. All they show is that they had bugs with them at that point.
I remember people having various colored armor back in the day but it was only the plate classes...and no one had it cause it was super spendy. Also there are no posts on EQTraders about all these supposed bugs that lasted years. I even found all the spawn locations for the ground spawn items needed:
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Here is another info page (this page extends down to say how to apply it to the armor, and states once done it cannot be undone. EVER):
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Notice how the items drop ONLY in the old world? This gives hints to the era. Why introduce this in late Velious/Luclin era, and make all the drops and the only places to purchase the items needed in the old world? And only apply this dye to old extremely out-dated armor? You have to think of what tradeskill stuff was able to be made by the Velious era. We had leather armor for rogues that trump even the best raid dropped armor now. Why would they implement the dye for old worthless armor at that point? They wouldn't.
Notice how it's for armor that's pretty much too expensive to make to even be worth it? A whole set isn't that much better than bronze, and it's craaazy spendy to make. That's why you didn't see a lot of it.
Do you have anymore info other than some patch notes that indicated that during the readying of Luclin they had issues with it? I am all about keeping it classic and implementing these recipes when they are supposed to be implemented, but your data sucks. What we have posted trumps yours. Of course the more specific we find the better we'll be.
Feel free to add anyone. The more information we have the better chance we have of figuring this out!