Name something purple!?

I'm working on an art piece and I need things that are purple. Naturally purple, or perhaps look purple in the right light.


I've got the only flower I need, iris, so don't name any flowers.





(Also, if anyone can name that type of sea shell that was used to make royal purple dye, that would be fabulous)

Name something purple!?
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grapes





One of the stars in the Pleiades, called Pleione, is sometimes called Purple Pleione because, being a fast spinning star, it has a purple hue caused by its blue-white color being obscured by a spinning ring of electrically excited red hydrogen gas.[10]





Purple is associated with Saturday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear purple on Saturdays and anyone born on a Saturday may adopt purple as their color.





Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, said, "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."





People with purple auras are said to have a love of ritual and ceremony





http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10...








Tyrian purple (Greek: πορφύρα, porphyra, Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple or imperial purple, is a purple-red dye produced by the ancient Phoenicians in the city of Tyre. The dye consists of a mucus-secretion of the hypobranchial gland of a medium-sized predatory sea snail, the marine gastropod Murex brandaris, commonly called the spiny dye-murex, a species in the family Muricidae, the murex or rock shells.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purp...
Reply:Grapes!!!, Wine???
Reply:Amethyst is purple,





According to wikipedia, the ancient dye derived from sea-shells was:





...occured naturally, but had to be harvested by humans. It consists of a fresh mucus secretion from the hypobranchial gland of a medium-sized predatory sea snail, the marine gastropod Murex brandaris, currently known as Bolinus brandaris (Linnaeus, 1758). This species is commonly called the spiny dye-murex, and it is a species in the family Muricidae, the murex or rock shells. The current range for this species is the "central and western Mediterranean" [2]
Reply:I once saw a purple and black sunrise. Spectacular!!!
Reply:the was dye manufactured in Classical antiquity from the mucus-secretion of the hypobranchial gland of a marine snail known as the Murex brandaris or the spiny dye-murex.


wikipedia has lots of info on things create purple dye
Reply:Eggplant
Reply:ummmm shoes, accessories, dolls, couches, etc.
Reply:The type of sea shell used to make dye was the Papura Patula sea snail shell.
Reply:My Helmet
Reply:It's not a seashell that they used. They dye came from very small shellfish called a Tyrian.
Reply:me eye contacts
Reply:for fun...A PURPLE COW!!!





an eggplant


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