Oh purple, how I’ll continue to chase you! My favourite colour. The history of the colour purple is fascinating! There’s very few strong sources of natural purple. The Phoenicians’ “Tyrian purple” came from a species of sea snail now known as Bolinus brandaris, and it was so exceedingly rare that it became worth its weight in gold. It became a pigment reserved for royalty (aka Royal purple). Cochineal red dye (from insects) can be shifted to purple using alum. I’ve had great success capturing mo