Was there some kind of real-world instance or happening we can point to that caused purple to become the “royal colour”?
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The Phoenician city of Tyre had a monopoly on its production as no one else knew the trade secret that it was derived from local snails so European was beholden on traders from the Levant to obtain it
I think you could literally Google this question directly and get your answer lol.
It’s pretty simple. Purple dyes used to be very hard to find and produce, and thus expensive. Only royalty and rich people could afford purple fabric.
Did they not realize that red and blue make purple?
Purple pigment was very expensive until the colour mauve was created chemically in the 1800s. After which the colour became so common the wealthy people dropped it.
In addition to shear cost, purple was the color that many Roman and later Byzantine Emperors wore as a sign of their leadership. Many later monarchs of Europe were just trying to copy that Roman look.
Blues and purples are some of the least common colors in nature. This also means the natural dyes to produce them were hard to find before we manufactured pigments.
Yep purple was expensive. I believe they had to use shells to make purple. Or some such thing.
Couldn’t you have just googled this? Is this something that really needs to be broken down for you?
I’m sure someone has said this but purple marble was also the hardest to obtain, and in Rome popes stole purple marble (and all the marble) from the colosseum and other various places to put in their churches/basilicas, etc.
always thought that was wild
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