Purple Felt Sheets, A4 Size, 5 per Pack

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Our fabric is available in these following colours: Red, Wine, Emerald, Grey, Bottle, Black, Royal Blue, Navy Blue, Yellow, White, Purple, Orange, Pink, Brown, Pale Blue, Pale Ginger Ale, Flesh/Naked Coloured, Brown, Gingerbread.

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By altering the percentage of sea salt in the dye vat and adding potash, he was able to successfully dye wool a deep purple colour. By the fourth century AD, sumptuary laws in Rome had been tightened so much that only the Roman emperor was permitted to wear Tyrian purple. Fab product Really happy with the quality of this felt , it was really great to add to art projects and kept me occupied! Later (9thcentury), a child born to a reigning emperor was said to be porphyrogenitos, " born in the purple".We use it for the figures for town centre flags and after being out in the open for months, the colours still stay strong and the material still looks good. Another dye extracted from a related sea snail, Hexaplex trunculus, produced a blue colour after light exposure which could be the one known as tekhelet ( תְּכֵלֶת), used in garments worn for ritual purposes. Transistors and circuits based on this material can be produced from sublimed thin-films of the dye.

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In the foreground, two Roman magistrates are identified by their toga praetexta, white with a stripe of Tyrian purple. Having purchased my lovely wool rich felt from Colourful Felt for years, I have found the colours vibrant, the staff friendly and the service is fantastic. We used the felt in the white, red, black and royal blue for the Hobbycraft Queens and Guards made from paper rolls.In 1909, Harvard anthropologist Zelia Nuttall compiled an intensive comparative study on the historical production of the purple dye produced from the carnivorous murex snail, source of the royal purple dye valued higher than gold in the ancient Near East and ancient Mexico. We will never share your details or information with 3rd parties and you can opt out any time you wish. To enjoy all that Hobbycraft has to offer, please enable cookies or check whether another programme is blocking them. By contrast, Jacoby finds that there are no mentions of purple fishing or dyeing, nor trade in the colorant in any Western source, even in the Frankish Levant.

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The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in the succeeding Byzantine Empire and subsidized by the imperial court, which restricted its use for the colouring of imperial silks. One of the oldest known fabrics in the world, felt is not woven its heavily compressed to create a stiff and rigid character. Additional archaeological evidence can be found from samples originating from excavations at the extensive Iron Age copper smelting site of “Slaves’ Hill” (Site 34), which is tightly dated by radiocarbon to the late 11th–early 10th centuries BC.

The Phoenicians also made a deep blue-colored dye, sometimes referred to as royal blue or hyacinth purple, which was made from a closely related species of marine snail. Murex-based dyeing must take place close to the site from which the snails originate, because the freshness of the material has a significant effect on the results, the colors yielded based on the long process of biochemical, enzymatic and photochemical reactions, and requires reduction and oxidation processes that probably took several days. On the other hand, murex fishing and dyeing with genuine purple are attested for Egypt in the tenth to 13th centuries. It is secreted by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name 'Murex'. The Roman mythographer Julius Pollux, writing in the 2ndcenturyAD, asserted ( Onomasticon I, 45–49) that the purple dye was first discovered by the philosopher Heracles of Tyre, or rather, by his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the coast at Tyre.