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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Blue was the hardest to get. Which is why it was reserved for Mary in Christian motifs. So no… also I’m sure you couldn’t mix those colours like we do with paints today.

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