Karnage on Nostr: 12,000 snails … 🐌 I can’t picture it ...

12,000 snails … 🐌 I can’t picture it

quoting note1g3f…5plw

TIL the reason that purple has traditionally been associated with royalty was because, in Ancient Rome, the only source of purple was milking and fermenting the liquid from a snail. It took 12,000 snails to produce 1 gram of dye! This made the Caesars declare it their exclusive color.

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/originsof-color/organic-dyes-and-lakes/t…
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