“ Alourgis ” company was found in 2001 in Thessaloniki manufacturing Clerical Wear. It is a family business which takes on clerical wear from designing to stitching, always with passion and skillfulness.

Our products cover a great range of clerical wear, from simple priestly robes, costumes, caps, hats, cross designs to embroidered products, banners and many more exquisite products. Having a great deal of experience in the ready-made clothing industry for more than 25 years, our business can fully fulfill all our costumer’s needs.

Most orders our business takes on are unique, exclusive and most of all the times customize with no copies, starting with the raw materials, embroidery, stitching till execution. Every member of the family takes on and carries out a single part of the business. From stitching, designing, gold-embroidery, embroidered icons to icon painting, all the members of the family study and especially analyze every part the take on.You will also discover many innovations and patents such as in the clerical hats and the monk caps.

These are ideas that have been legalized and patented by “ Alourgis “ with the Industrial Ownership Organization and which facilitate the clothing and simplify complex products.The business, with the assistance of the internet and our costumer’s satisfaction, begins to spread further worldwide, accepting orders from Australia and the U.S.A . Every product is designed and made with strict criteria for endurance and best quality. The right combination of the materials with the smart creativity, ensures the best ergonomic results.

The customers enjoy the friendly products with a specific comfort concerning their use.

BUSINESS NAME
ALOURGIS/PURPLE RED
THE MOST COSMOPOLITAN DYE OF THE ANCIENT TIMES.

The purple, known as royal dye since the ancient times, was the most beautiful and most expensive dye in the ancient times. With this colour purple red, some royal and emperor’s clothing were clothing dyed.
It was one of the most important dyes in Byzante used in expensive clothing of the emperors.



The production of the colour was very painful and a great number of seashells were required. Those seashells gave an indelible deep red colour. That dye was particularly valuable due to the difficulty of the production and the rarity of the seashells, therefore the use of clothing dyed purple red was an indication of wealth and power.

The purple red fabric with its specific indelible deep red colour was extremely expensive good. The dyestuff in each seashell was very limited. Nearly 10.000 seashells could produce on amount of dyestuff in order to dye just on piece of clothing. In general, the colour purple gave status and prestige, and for this reason it was used only by the royal and priests.

The procedure was the following : The seashells and the fabric were placed together in big sacks in the sea water. The sacks were then shaken, so that the seashells produce the dyestuff, which next dyed the fabric.

That procedure and the work of dying the purple red fabrics was named ALOURGIS.