Timeline for Did anyone interweave blue and red threads in order to give the illusion of purple cloth before purple dye became cheap?
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 11:57 | comment | added | MCW♦ | And Tyrian purple was not what we think of as purple today; today we might refer to that color as red. The point wasn't to prohibit "any color between red & blue", the point was effectively to trademark a specific, very expensive luxury dye for the exclusive use of elite. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 11:19 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | This is a good point for Rome. Rome wasn't the only ancient society though. Also one imagines that if it became cheap due to some new technique, it would no longer have the cachet of being only attainable by the ultra elite (which might have made such a law pointless) | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 11:16 | history | answered | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |