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Do you know that Purple has been the Colour of Royalty throughout history?
During the Elizabethan era of 1558-1603, Queen Elizabeth I forbade anyone but relatives of hers to wear royal purple.
Why purple was adopted by royalty, and disallowed for commoners??
Well, simple answer is- It was expensive. And that starts with some snails.
Dyeing fabrics in the past was an in-depth process than what it is today. Everything was hand-dyed and took much longer to get the right color you need. Currently, we can get any shade of purple color we desire in no time.
So how would they dye fabric a lovely purple tint in ancient Rome? It all came from a little marine snail. People collected thousands of marine snails to transform them into the tyrian purple. They were boiled for days and produced a foul odor in the process. But it wasn’t the snails who were purple in color; their chemical precursors with heat and light produced the valuable dye.
Because the color was so exclusive to make, it was hard to be affordable for “commoners.”
It was also at times expensive for even royalty to obtain. But imagine it being against the law to wear purple if you were not a part of the royal family.
Strange, isn't it?!
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