Usages of purpura
Alia textrix purpuram ostendit et dicit se paenulas pulchras facere posse.
Another weaver woman shows purple cloth and says that she can make beautiful cloaks.
Mercatrix Massiliam proficisci vult, quia ibi linum bonum et purpuram claram invenire sperat.
The merchant woman wants to set out for Massilia, because she hopes to find good linen and bright purple cloth there.
Sic filia didicit et ubi humi liber iaceret et quomodo paenulae, baltei, linum, purpuraque a fullone aut a textore curarentur.
Thus the daughter learned both where the book was lying on the ground and how cloaks, belts, linen, and purple cloth were cared for by a fuller or by a weaver.
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