Color Crush Series: Tyrian Purple

The original luxury pigment. It’s born from sea snails, worn by emperors, and still casting a spell. Tyrian Purple wasn’t just discovered, it was extracted, painstakingly, from the mucus of Murex Sea snails by the Phoenicians around 1500 BCE. The city of Tyre, which is modern day Lebanon. It became the epicenter of this dye’s production,…