ANST - natural dyeing ... reds & purples
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at bga.com
Tue Jun 30 21:36:09 PDT 1998
On 30 Jun 98, at 23:06, Laury Torrence wrote:
> It seems I remember something about a mollusk that was
> from the Mediterranean area being used to make red/purple
> dye. Possibly ground or boiled, not certain! Anyone else
> recall something of this one?
the basis of "Tyrinnean (sp?) Purple", origionally obtained from the sea-
trading city of Tyr as early as the bronze age ... one of the great luxury
goods of many ages - and cause of many sumptuary laws (reserving purple
for the elite .... once commercial growth allowed it to be afforded by the
increasingly affluent middle class of merchants)
'wolf
... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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