#murex

[snailspotter]

Today's snail: Murex acanthostephes

(source)

[faantasizee]

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Day 15

Murex Manticore

[honorthegods]

Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome

Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the na

"Laboratory tests confirmed that the vast majority of these fabrics had not been dyed using the murex snail. Far from containing the mollusk’s biomarker molecule, the fibers had acquired their apparent opulence through a double-dyeing method that used two plant-based dyes widely known and used in the textile industry of the time: madder (Rubia tinctorum), whose roots provided a red pigment, and woad (Isatis tinctoria), regarded as the indigo of the Near East, whose leaves produced a blue color."

[shishkayo]

I dream that when my skill improves, I will draw this again.

[snailworldonline]

7.5in Long Artificial Giant Murex Seashell and 5.5in Long Artificial Florida Horse Conch Seashell via Jamali Garden

[mydonkeyfeet]

Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time

Experts say the pigment was worth more than gold and used to dye the clothes of imperial figures.

So cool!

[comparativeoracle]

Murex. Art by Bethany van Rijswijk, from the Seashell Oracle.

Power, Luxury, Effort