Purple is most often associated with royalty and nobility. In medieval European days blue dyes were rare and expensive, therefore purple was really only worn by those who could afford the dye. Today in western culture purple is still associated with royalty and wisdom where in Thailand, for example, it is the color of mourning. It symbolizes nobility, spirituality, wealth, ceremony, and enlightenment. It holds a special, almost sacred placed in nature, in it’s rare delicate form in lavender, orchids, and lilacs. While it provides us also with a sense of calm and cool, much like blue, it also shares blue’s characteristic to have the ability too make us feel moody when exposed to too much of this hue. Cleopatra’s favorite color, we also see the Purple Hat Ladies wearing the hue with much sophistication and regal-ness, yet meanwhile purple is often associated with flamboyancy, arrogance, and over indulging. Purple, a somewhat controversial color in how it makes us feel and what it means to us, is also one of the most ’sacred’ in it’s symbolism in churches.

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