[Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

[Betsy Marshal]

Here is the other reference

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3103354.stm

enjoy!


-----Original Message-----
From: steppes-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org
[mailto:steppes-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org] On
Behalf Of Betsy Marshal
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:05 AM
To: DonnelShaw at aol.com; steppes at ansteorra.org
Subject: RE: [Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

This might be more than you wanted to know... but since you asked.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:HMcspR9dLu8J:www.mdpi.org/molecules/paper
s/60900736.pdf+murex+dye&hl=en

(watch out for the word wrap!) for brevity's sake I will extract an
interesting bit...

Or not.. but it is about the glandular secretions being spread on the linen
and exposed to sunlight to "develop" the color, and varying exposures
produced quite a range of colors- see page 3.
I also recall seeing an article in a British paper about a chemical
researcher who discovered a method of using cockle shells and bacteria to
reduce the pigment- as indigo has to be "fermented" to develop the color. I
alas cannot put my hands on the reference just at the moment, but I will
keep looking. Pyro

-----Original Message-----
From: steppes-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org
[mailto:steppes-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org] On
Behalf Of DonnelShaw at aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:29 PM
To: reese_esther at yahoo.com; steppes at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

Information from Web site. 
 
_http://www.quilthistory.com/dye.htm_ (http://www.quilthistory.com/dye.htm) 
 
 
Purple was made from a mollusk and clothing made from it  was so expensive 
only the royal family could afford it. It was extracted from a  small
gastropod 
mollusk found in all seas or from a crustacean called a Trumpet  Shell or 
Purple Fish, found near Tyre on the Mediterranean coast. Their body
secreted a 
deep purple fluid which was harvested by cracking the shell and  digging out
a 
vein located near the shellfish head with a small pointed utensil.  The 
mucus-like contents of the veins were then mixed together and spread on silk
or 
linen. Estimates are that it took 8,500 shellfish to produce one gram of the
dye, 
hence the fact this dye was worth more than its weight in gold. This  
expensive dye was also mentioned in the bible, in Acts, where Lydia is a
seller  of 
purple
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