Lovely colours and excellent quality! The service was great and will definitely recommend Fabricland! Thank you so much! The colour-fast (non-fading) dye was an item of luxury trade, prized by Romans, who used it to colour ceremonial robes. Used as a dye, the color shifts from blue (peak absorption at 590nm, which is yellow-orange) to reddish-purple (peak absorption at 520nm, which is green). [22] It is believed that the intensity of the purple hue improved rather than faded as the dyed cloth aged. Vitruvius mentions the production of Tyrian purple from shellfish. [23] In his History of Animals, Aristotle described the shellfish from which Tyrian purple was obtained and the process of extracting the tissue that produced the dye. [24] Pliny the Elder described the production of Tyrian purple in his Natural History: [25] [b]

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Totally delighted with this felt fabric. Quality, colour and size all excellent. Very easy to work with too. Excellent service and excellent quality felt for very good price. Well recommended and I will certainly be buying again. Great company to deal with , brilliant range of materials and felts, very prompt delivery, with outstanding customer services, would highly recommend. a b c d St Clair K (2016). The Secret Lives of Colour. London: John Murray. pp.162–164. ISBN 9781473630819. OCLC 936144129. The second time we have bought this felt. We use it for the figures for town centre flags and after being out in the open for months, the colours still stay strong and the material still looks good. An excellent buy and service.

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By the fourth century AD, sumptuary laws in Rome had been tightened so much that only the Roman emperor was permitted to wear Tyrian purple. [4] As a result, 'purple' is sometimes used as a metonym for the office (e.g. the phrase 'donned the purple' means 'became emperor'). The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in the succeeding Byzantine Empire and subsidized by the imperial court, which restricted its use for the colouring of imperial silks. [9] Later (9thcentury), a child born to a reigning emperor was said to be porphyrogenitos, " born in the purple". [10] a b Moorey P (1999). Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. p.138. ISBN 1-57506-042-6.

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Most of us will remember felt from our school days, the standard fabric used in many a classroom to bring our imaginations to life. Felt is still widely used today to help create fabulous ideas such as cushions, toys and costumes. Definition of the Tyrian purple". World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. RHS, UCL and RGB Colors, gamma=1.4, fan2". Azalea Society of America. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007 . Retrieved 15 July 2006. (this gives the RGB value #b80049, which has been converted to #990024 for the sRGB gamma of 2.2) Author Profile". Imperial-Purple.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011 . Retrieved 13 July 2011. There's a range of other colours and patterns of this fantastic felt available, as well as self-adhesive felt sheets that will be the perfect alternative if you're using felt for papercrafts! This non-adhesive option is perfect for sewing projects, papercrafts and kids' crafts.A medieval depiction of the coronation of the Emperor Charlemagne in 800AD wearing royal blue. The bishops and cardinals wear Tyrian purple, and the Pope wears white.