cochineal

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• A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
• As trade with the New World increased, cochineal became the standard dye for a wide variety of uses, from the red coats of British soldiers, to the red tints of artists' paints and the coloring of pastry icings.
• Traditional red colouring includes kermes and cochineal, both of which are pigments made by crushing masses of tiny insects.
• The customer relations representative assured us that carmine and cochineal are natural colors, and correctly so.
• The Aztecs cultivated cochineal and produced a red dye that was the brightest and strongest color Europe had ever seen.
• The choice of coloring materials was as critical here as it was in creating any other kind of color diagram: reference Le Blon recommended the use of a red lake made from cochineal or brazilwood, Prussian blue reference, and yellow berries (stil de grain), but the quality of the coloring materials was as important as their sources. 16 Black was made by combining the three colors and the paper support provided white. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• With the exception of madder, those colours mostly affected by _light and air_ are of organic origin, such as gallstone, Indian yellow, and the yellow dye-wood lakes; the red and purple lakes of cochineal; indigo; and sap green. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The most common animal dye was cochineal, a crimson colour which came from cactus eating insects, of which 17,000 were needed to produce one single ounce of dye.
• To accomplish this, the first thing was to obtain a good red ink from the cochineal, which is crimson. Foul Play