The color purple is a mixture of blue and
red. The earliest purple dyes came from Phoenicia about 4000 years ago and were
extracted from certain shell fish. The purple dyes were very expensive because
it took many shell fish to make a small amount of dye. Therefore purple became
the color of royalty in various empires including ancient Egypt, then Persia,
and then Rome among others. During the Middle Ages it was used in the cloaks of
the highest clergy in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An English chemist named
William Perkins in 1856 developed a method for making synthetic purple dye from
coal tar. This discovery made purple
products relatively inexpensive and therefore available to common people. You can find the color purple in a lampwork glass bead
handcrafted by the Beadshaper at PURPLE RIPPLE HEART GLASS BEAD (beadshaper.com)
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