A handful of Mixtec elders in Oaxaca keep alive a millennia-old craft of milking sea snails for purple dye, now officially ...

"If she hates [it] she can just kick me out," the bride's sister wrote on Reddit Getty A year before her wedding, a bride requested that her sister dye her dark purple hair a "natural color" because ...

Many of us develop strong attachments to particular colors, but purple brings out the most focused and enthusiastic devotion. What makes purple so distinctive? Part of the answer comes from optics.

Purple shampoo aims to remove yellow or brassy tones from hair by depositing a small amount of violet pigment on it during a wash. Companies often market it to those with blonde or lightened hair.

Archaeologists in northern Israel have made an extraordinary discovery that shines a new light on the ancient world’s most prized commodity. A nearly 3,000-year-old factory responsible for creating ...

One reader wonders: Since purple dye was scarce, why didn’t people just combine blue and red? Illustration by Aurélia Fronty Q: I’ve heard that purple was called the royal color because purple dye ...

As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season. Vestments highlight the liturgical color of ‘violet’ used these 40 days. Watts ...

EPA won’t ban any uses of a purple dye commonly used in paints under review for its ties to lung damage. The agency on Friday released its C.I. Pigment Violet 29 proposed risk management rule, which ...

Aegina Kolonna: view of the site from the Northeast (Aegina Kolonna excavation, Department of Classics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg). Small pictures from the left: drawing of a purple snail of ...

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "I would crush the whole shell and try to ...

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