There are 196 countries in the world and almost no violet color in the science of any state in them!
Throughout history, violet has never existed in any state, kingdom, empire, or even army flag!
The reason is very simple: that violet was always the most expensive color on earth, until the eighteenth century violet was costing more than its weight gold! For this reason purple color has been associated with royal power and wealth over the centuries; so that Queen Elizabeth I has prevented anyone except the royal family from wearing it!
I wondered why this color was more expensive than gold. Here's why:
That the dye used to make this color was coming from the city «Tire» in the Phoenician «Modern Lebanon» Textile traders have extracted this dye from the «mollusk or mollusk» in the area of Tire on the Mediterranean, and in fact you need to More than ten thousand of these mollusks were harvested to make only one gram of Tyrian Purple.
Only wealthy rulers were able to buy color. He became associated with aristocratic strata in Rome, Egypt and Persia, and later became a representative of spirituality and holiness because the emperors, kings and queens they wore thought people to be gods or descendents of the gods. The papa costume contains the same color.
Sometimes the dye was too expensive even for the kings themselves. In the third century, Roman Emperor Aurelian forbade his wife to buy a shawl made of terracotta silk because it cost literally three times its gold weight! To zoom the picture, the kilo would cost the equivalent of $ 120,000 today »
But in 1856 the color became accessible to everyone. In 1856, an English chemist, William Henry Perkin, an 18-year-old man, accidentally installed an artificial purple compound while trying to manufacture quinin, An antimalarial drug. He noticed that the material he made could be used to dye the fabrics, and then he patented the pigment under the name "purple aniline." Then he worked on its manufacture and commercial distribution, which gave him enormous wealth.
The color is no longer expensive or not available, but it is still not used in the flags of countries. You can only find it in very small spaces - you may not notice it - in the flags of Spain "1931-1939", Nicaragua and Dominica.
