quoting note1g3f…5plwTIL the reason that purple has traditionally been associated with royalty was because, in Ancient Rome, the only source of purple was milking and fermenting the liquid from a snail. It took 12,000 snails to produce 1 gram of dye! This made the Caesars declare it their exclusive color.
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/originsof-color/organic-dyes-and-lakes/t…
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12,000 snails … 🐌 I can’t picture it