Plus, I was finding it wasn’t a great color for re-wetting.īut – Ha Ha! – I’ve replaced it with DS Lunar Black! Confounding all of you who say I have too many greys. It's possible that LRM has a synthesized dibromoindigo ingredient, but I'm just speculating.Oh by the way – just to close the circle on the post “ I’m Looking for One Weird Color“- after a tremendous discussion, with plenty of advice from all corners of the world – (that has got to be one of my most popular posts of all time) – here’s what I’ve done: Three Weird Colors!Įveryone was correct, I have a lot of greys on my palette, and Davy is easily mixed. That said, La Reigne Mauve, when diluted, looks a lot like the color portrayed by the South American dyers. So the pigments made from the South American and the Mediterranean Murex snails are probably about the same, but it's not unlikely that the Romans had some more specific recipes that included that pigment to make their dyes. I think I remember reading that the Murex pigment may have been mixed with a similarly valuable red pigment, and it's likely that there was cooking procedure that affected the color or durability of the dye. However, Tyrian purple may not have been made solely from the Murex pigment. As a bonus, the pigment is the same: 6,6'-dibromoindigo (according to a quick Google search), and is found in many mollusks in the Murex family. They may be distant relatives.Īctually, it is a Murex mollusk, just not the same Murex as that used in the archaic Mediterranean. That's an interesting dye from a South American snail and I hope the sustainable harvest methods work out. OK, that's not real Tyrian purple from Murex mollusc.
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