http://www.metafilter.com/tags/dyes Posts tagged with 'dyes' at MetaFilter. Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:42 -0800 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47768/Holy%2Dsnails <a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.03/living2.fringe.html">A rabbi, some snails, the color purple, and a 1,500 year old mystery.</a> By puzzling <a href="http://www.tekhelet.com/criteria.htm">through various sources</a>, a group of researchers and religious scholars think they have found in the mollusk <a href="http://www.manandmollusc.net/advanced_uses/personal_adornment.html">Murex </a><a href="http://www.tekhelet.com/ode.html">trunculus </a>the source of a <a href="http://www.kremer-pigmente.de/foto36015.htm">purplish dye</a> that was used in ancient Jewish ceremonies over a millennia and a half ago. Murex has been used for the <a href="http://www.tekhelet.com/timeline.htm">last 3,600 years</a> to make Imperial or Tyrian Purple, <a href="http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/tyrian"> a key color in the ancient world</a>. There are many other <a href="http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/">pigments with their own interesting stories</a> as well. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47768 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:42 -0800 color dyes history Jewish mollusc murex pigments purple research snails Talmud trunculus blahblahblah