Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your sk

Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make more. This is how it's done in America. I don't know what's wrong with Europeans that they can't figure this out.