A blue ribbon panel is a group of especially qualified people. The first prize gets a blue ribbon. Purple, Violet The Egyptian queen Cleopatra loved purple . To obtain one ounce of Tyrian purple dye, she had her servants soak 20,000 Purpura snails for 10 days. In Thailand, purple is worn by a widow mourning her husband's death.
Purple robes are an emblem of authority and rank.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that the power of meditation increases ten times when done in a purple light, as in the purple light of stained glass. Purple in a child's room is said to help develop the imagination according to color theory. Richard Wagner composed his operas in a room with shades of violet , his color of inspiration. Purple is a royal color. Yellow In Egypt and Burma, yellow signifies mourning.