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Ìý The Colour Purple Wednesday 23 April 2003 Ìý
In ancient Rome, the colour purple meant power - and everyone wanted to wear it. The craze was so intense that Pliny wrote "we must pardon the mad desire for purple, but why the high prices for a dye with an offensive smell and a hue which is dull and greenish, like an angry sea?".

Victoria Finlay is the author of Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox - and she took Jennifer Chevalier to the British Museum to find out about the long history of Tyrian Purple.
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay, published by Sceptre; ISBN: 0340733284


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