Today's snail: Murex acanthostephes
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Today's snail: Murex acanthostephes
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March Of Robots Lancer Edition
Day 15
Murex Manticore
Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the na
"Laboratory tests confirmed that the vast majority of these fabrics had not been dyed using the murex snail. Far from containing the mollusk’s biomarker molecule, the fibers had acquired their apparent opulence through a double-dyeing method that used two plant-based dyes widely known and used in the textile industry of the time: madder (Rubia tinctorum), whose roots provided a red pigment, and woad (Isatis tinctoria), regarded as the indigo of the Near East, whose leaves produced a blue color."
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Another custom Warframe convention badge, this time for Laurandriel over on Bluesky, ft. Protea Prime and an orokin cell and harrow chassis blueprint sugatra! Done with markers and colored pencil, progress pics under the cut!
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7.5in Long Artificial Giant Murex Seashell and 5.5in Long Artificial Florida Horse Conch Seashell via Jamali Garden
Experts say the pigment was worth more than gold and used to dye the clothes of imperial figures.
So cool!