NATURAL COLORS

THE MOST COMMONLY USED NATURAL COLORS/3

Also from India and Southeast Asia came the yellow-orange tones of turmeric and safflower.

Another source of color was the mollusk murex, from witch the ancient Mediterranean peoples, in particular the Phoenicians, extracted the most precious and costly of dyes (given the large quantities of raw material required to produce it), the color purple.

This dye spread from Phoenicia throughout the entire Mediterranean basin, until centuries later it conquered the queen of the wesetrn world, Rome.