The Color Purple

The mark of creativity and royalty is the colour purple. It is made by combining two primary colours, blue and red. The resulting colour is violet it becomes purple when a little white colour is added to it. 

The quality of this hue poses the qualities of both of its components. It possesses astonishing creativity of red as well as the calmness and saturation of blue. The people who love this colour are usually immature and depressive.

Ancient Painting 

They have their own point of views according to which they treat the whole world. This colour leaves anxiety if applied extra ordinary.
You will feel yourself stressed up when there is extra hue. In the ancient books purple colour represented the grace of royalty. It was very expensive and only used by kings, queens and other court members.
It was only used to dye silk and delicate fabrics. It was found in the cave inscriptions as well combined with other colours.

Red colour is considered as a mark of life and love. Colour tone extracted from it also contains both elements in it. People obsess romanticism in it. The old paintings showed purple in the background or base to represent the harmony and coordination of two hearts. 

Love gods draped their bodies in purple silk that is waving in the air. Such scenes are admired by people and adorned the walls of notable galleries and places all over the world. It was one of the elements of prehistoric art. It is also called a mark of cruelty because of it extraction in the ancient times. Lots of tiny snails needed to be killed for this purpose. 

It was made by breaking the shell of a sea snail named spiny dye-murex.  

Murex Shell 

The colour then created was very deep and now known as tyrian purple. These snails were left on the beach to soak until their specific gland was removed.

Then people collected the juice in a place where it was left under the sunlight. It was an amazing procedure because the liquid first turned into white, then mustard, then green, then violet, then red and it became darker if not kept out. 

People took great care while making it and obtained the right tone they needed. The dried blood of poor snails used to dye wool, linen or silk .

Murex 

It was also a representation for spirituality and was worn by various priests especially of the court. The term purple was first found in 4th century in Bible. The tyrian purple was not expensive because of the colour in ancient times where as it had a wonderful luster, richness and resistance to fading. It was very expensive because of its qualities and extraction. 

There were various elements also used to make this hue including Hematite and Manganese. 

Sea urchin and purpura were also used for this propose they belonged to sea as well like murex.

Sea Urchin

 Sea urchin is a plant like stuff that can better be called purple moss. This colour is more in fashion nowadays. It looks very beautiful either worn in combinations or simple.