Until a synthetic pigment was produced in the 19th century to kick start a revolution in the fashion world.

The color was expensive due to rarity of sources and hand work devoted to produce the pigments, for instance tyrian purple requires thousands of snails with a tedious process to produce a small amount. History: due to the rarity of the pigment, but also because the color is really full of pride, it was a color choice of royals and upper-class, from Julius Caesar to Queen Cleopatra.

And in CMYK color space, it is composed of 100% magenta, and 49% black without cyan or yellow. The murex snails, found in the Mediterranean world, can be 'milked' for the. Specifically it comes from bolinus brandaris, which Linnaeus originally called Murex brandaris. Imperial purple, also called Tyrian purple, begins its life as a secretion from a predatory sea snail. It is included in the subgenus Trunculariopsis. It may be that Lydia has a predatory sea snail to thank for her profit. The same can be said about RGB color space used in screens where it is made up of 128/255 red (~50.2% of red), 128/255 blue (~50.2% of blue), with no green component. Hexaplex trunculus (previously known as Murex trunculus, Phyllonotus trunculus, or the banded dye-murex) is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails. How the color is made: purple is a balanced mix of red and blue, and it can be made by mixing them in wet media. But it is also deeply connected with stimulating imagination, let alone its majestical and spiritual qualities. Murex sea snails have been known for their production of the dye Tyrian Purple since ancient times. One of the majestical colors that is not only associated with power, authority and royalty.

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