Why was purple pigment history difficult to produce? Couldn’t ascestors have just mixed red and blue, instead of laboriously extracting it from sea snails?

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Why was purple pigment history difficult to produce? Couldn’t ascestors have just mixed red and blue, instead of laboriously extracting it from sea snails?

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I don’t mean to hijack this but I’ve found its very difficult to get opaque purple glass seed beads. I’ve been told they’re difficult to make. Is this at all for similar reasons?

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