[Elfsea] needing help from wise ones

[Terri Head]

Thank you soooo very much! This will definately help!  I found a website that told how to make the dye... I just have to find it again. lol!  This is a great start.  Again, Thanks.  :o)

Violet of Glamorganshire


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Vicki Marsh" <XaraXene at attbi.com>
Reply-To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:09:19 -0500

>Do a search on Murex and Poryphyry.  The murex snails are extinct now, but
>their shells provided the purple dye used by the Byzantine Rulers.
>Poryphyry is a reddish-purple marble that the emperors had their residences
>built out of.  I got to see (and touch when they weren't looking) an urn and
>a sarcophogus made of the stuff at Dumbarton Oaks University
>(www.doaks.org). The ruling families even took the last name
>"Porphyrogenitus" - meaning "born to the purple".
>
> "The children of the emperors were born in the Purple Bedchamber in the
>Purple Palace--a residence which owed its name to the fact that the walls of
>the empress's bedchamber were hung with stuff, generally silk, the colour of
>porphyry.  Though a very small number of senior court officials were allowed
>to wear purple cloaks, stuffs of that color were reserved for the exclusive
>use of members of the imperial family.  They alone could wear purple-colored
>robes and shoes, and be buried in porphyry sarcophagi." Tamara Talbot Rice,
>EVERYDAY LIFE in BYZANTIUM, copyright 1967, published 1994 Barnes & Noble
>Books. ISBN 0-88029-145-1
>
>There are many, many biblical references to purple cloth as well.  It's
>upstairs, but I seem to recall information about murex and purple in WOMEN'S
>WORK - THE LAST 20,000 YEARS (Elizabeth Barber?) I'll look it up tonight and
>report back on it tomorrow.
>
>Xene
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org [mailto:elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org]On
>Behalf Of Terri Head
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:24 PM
>To: Elfsea
>Subject: [Elfsea] needing help from wise ones
>
>
>greetings:
>
>     As most of you know, I have been sent away to College in the Steppes
>Region (the Art Institute of Dallas) to study Interior Designing. (thus the
>reason I am rarely seen now days) I will be obtaining my Bachelor's Degree
>in Fine Arts.  This pursuit will take 3 years.
>
>     I have a favor to ask of the wise ones on any information/ websites
>etc. that I may research the color purple.  I have a term paper to do on the
>history, the feeling(s) of, etc. on my color choice.  I would be much
>obliged.
>
>     Hopefully, on one of my breaks between Quarters, I can once again see
>all of your smiling faces.
>
>Missing you all...
>
>Violet of Glamorganshire
>
>
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