Ileana Calotescu
Cold, rich, calm, but at the same time mysterious and hard, purple is considered one of the most beautiful colors. Because it is obtained by the fusion of red and blue, which, in fact, are opposed, it is considered a kind of union and unit of opposites, as well as the formation of something new and previously unknown.
I share this flower with Color Crazy Challenge, which this week brings to our attention the purple.
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
Rumi
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Did you know that purple was isolated for the first time by Phoenicians from the Murex brandaris mollusc?
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I did know that it came from the sea. No wonder it was so rare. Love it. I did a quiz on here last year about the color purple. Very interesting color. I love how you explained it, the unison between warm and cold.
We have purple flowers here from the plant that we consider weeds.
The process to create purple in the past was so destructive. It is an interesting color in history.
Agree! In order to produce only one gram of natural purple dye, ten thousand molluscs were harvested and processed.
sad that so many were used. But, purple is my least favorite color so no impact on me!@
Never know that it was isolated even.
That’s why I like Virily! We all find information we didn’t know before.
Beautiful photo as always. Did not know that about purple.
Thank you, Carol! It was an expensive dye, as Alex said, for this very reason.
purple was a fantastically expensive dye, only the extremely wealthy could afford it
This is true. Did you know that for this reason and because it was difficult to obtain, this color is not found on any of the national flags?