what is the color of royalty?

Question

is it purple?

Answer 1

Traditionally it is purple because it used to be a vary rare color to make and in ancient times could only be produced from a shellfish found in the eastern mediterranean

Answer 2

The color of royalty, purple connotes luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also feminine and romantic. However, because it is rare in nature, purple can appear artificial.

In Polynesia, yellow was a color of royalty and divinity.

Answer 3

Diana : well yes purple could be the color of Royality because
the king& Queen of England did wear a matching set of royal robes but I reccomended some times red with white trimmings
to be correct

Answer 4

In ancient Rome the color of the Emperor was always Purple.

Answer 5

In Malaysia, it's yellow. In the old days, no one was allowed to wear yellow because that was reserved for royalty. The reason behind yellow is because the dye was made from saffron and it was a very expensive commodity traded in South East Asia back in the 1500's.

Answer 6

Yes it is.. its a mix of blue and red together.. like a dark purple not just any regular purple. its not fuschia either because thats more on the pink side These are some colors you can choose from http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-nero&p=royalty%20purple&fr2=tab-web

Answer 7

Royal Blue

Answer 8

Purple is the usual answer. Although people of royal or noble descent are often referred to as blue-blooded.

Answer 9

The color PURPLE means ROYALTY or wealth. In olden times, the color purple was hard to get. It was made from a substance that came from a tiny snaillike animal. It took over 60,000 snails to produce one pound of dye. Can you see why this purple dye was so expensive, and that only wealthy people could afford it? Usually only Kings and Queens would wear purple clothing.
Legend credits its discovery to Herakles, or rather to his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the Levantine coast. King Phoenix received a purple-dyed robe from Herakles and decreed the rulers of Phoenicia should wear this color as a royal symbol.

Although originating in Tyre (hence the name), man's first dye chemical industry spread throughout the world.

Rome, Egypt, and Persia all used purple as the imperial standard. Purple dyes were rare and expensive; only the rich had access to them. The purple colorants used came from different sources, most from the dye extraction from fish or insects.

The imperial purple of Rome was based on mollusk from which purpura comes. Emperor Aurelian refused to let his wife buy a purpura-dyed silk garment, as it cost its weight in gold!

Insect and snail animal-based colors were mentioned in the Bible for use in textile furnishings of the Tabernacle and for the sacred vestments for the High Priest Aaron, and they also were used in King Solomon's and King Herod's temples in Jerusalem.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, the use of “Tyrian Purple” also declined, and large-scale production ceased with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D. It was replaced by cheaper dyes such as lichen purple and madder.

Pope Paul II in 1464 introduced the so-called “Cardinal's Purple,” which was really scarlet extracted from the Kermes insect. This became the first luxury dye of the Middle Ages.

Dyes were exported extensively from Central and South America during Spain's exploration of North and South America. Among these were Cochineal from Mexico and Peru.

The chemical birth of the synthetic dye industry can be traced to the discovery of an aniline-based purple dye, mauveine, by William H. Perkin in 1856, who accomplished this while searching for a cure for malaria. Perkin was an English chemist who changed the world of his time by making this purple color available to the masses. It became quite fashionable to wear clothing dyed with “mauve,” and Mr. Perkin became a very wealthy man.

In 1909 Paul Friedlander determined the major chemical composition of Murex dye as 6,6'-dibromoindigo.

Today, genuine “Tyrian Purple” remains the domain of the rich and famous. However, synthetic dyes and pigments that meet various purple color requirements have removed the mystique of the color purple.

Answer 10

Depends.Crimson is a usual royalty colour