Purple Felt Sheets, A4 Size, 5 per Pack

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The Phoenicians also made a deep blue-colored dye, sometimes referred to as royal blue or hyacinth purple, which was made from a closely related species of marine snail.Regal' purple dye is found in Israeli artefacts dating 3,000 years to the reigns of kings Solomon and David". Most of us will remember felt from our school days, the standard fabric used in many a classroom to bring our imaginations to life. Murex-based dyeing must take place close to the site from which the snails originate, because the freshness of the material has a significant effect on the results, the colors yielded based on the long process of biochemical, enzymatic and photochemical reactions, and requires reduction and oxidation processes that probably took several days. These are the marine gastropods Bolinus brandaris the spiny dye-murex (originally known as Murex brandaris Linnaeus, 1758), the banded dye-murex Hexaplex trunculus, the rock-shell Stramonita haemastoma, [12] [13] and less commonly a number of other species such as Bolinus cornutus. We use it for the figures for town centre flags and after being out in the open for months, the colours still stay strong and the material still looks good.

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It is then set to boil in vessels of tin [or lead], and every hundred amphorae ought to be boiled down to five hundred pounds of dye, by the application of a moderate heat; for which purpose the vessel is placed at the end of a long funnel, which communicates with the furnace; while thus boiling, the liquor is skimmed from time to time, and with it the flesh, which necessarily adheres to the veins. According to Pliny, Meninx (today's Djerba) produced the best purple in Africa which was also ranked second only after Tyre's.

The Phoenicians established an ancillary production facility on the Iles Purpuraires at Mogador, in Morocco. On the other hand, murex fishing and dyeing with genuine purple are attested for Egypt in the tenth to 13th centuries.

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If you want to learn more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy. In ancient times, extracting this dye involved tens of thousands of snails and substantial labor, and as a result, the dye was highly valued. Biological pigments were often difficult to acquire, and the details of their production were kept secret by the manufacturers.About the tenth day, generally, the whole contents of the cauldron are in a liquefied state, upon which a fleece, from which the grease has been cleansed, is plunged into it by way of making trial; but until such time as the colour is found to satisfy the wishes of those preparing it, the liquor is still kept on the boil. We never have to worry that the shades vary, also they introduce new shades with the most wonderful names.