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The surprising reason why almost no flags feature the colour purple
The predatory sea snails only live in the Eastern Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The dye was known as Tyrian purple as a reference to the city of Tyre, in modern-day Lebanon ...
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These New Balances Are Made for Royalty
The colorway finds its inspiration in a specific shade of purple sourced from sea snails. Apparently the tyrian purple dye has traditionally been used for royal garments due to the time intensive ...
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10 African Businesses Making the World's Most Expensive Products
In Tunisia, Mohamed cracks and scrapes at snails to make authentic Tyrian purple dye. Farther south in Uganda, Akello pounds and grinds nuts by hand to make silky, luxurious East African shea butter.