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The next Friends' talk at the Museum & on Zoom
will be on Wednesday 7th September 2022 at 7.30pm
Amy Butler Greenfield: A Perfect Red – The History of Cochineal
Red has been a source of wealth and power from ancient times onward. But what is the perfect red?

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2022-08-13

If life gives you a pest infestation, start a cochineal farm?

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2022-07-18

Izuria Cochis got her name from the Basque word "izurritea", which means pestilence or the plague (a callback to her caste's history) and from cochineal insects, the main source for carmine dyes irl.

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2021-11-04

11/7でしょ!!10の新刊①ジョウヤス本のサンプルです。「HELLO MY LIFE」A5サイズ、84ページでキノと柚子の合同誌です。ゲストとして「俺がハッピーゴリラだ！」のむむさん（）と、「cochineal」のこまさん（）をお呼びしています。やったー！！！！小説サンプルはツリーに。

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2021-10-25

An 18thC account of the process of harvesting cochineal dye in New Spain via steam bath.

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2018-11-03

Cool history on how they used insects as dye https://t.co/ePUzi2xME4?

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2017-02-26

Attention color enthusiasts: cochineal--made from crushed bugs--was a red that was all the rage for centuries. https://t.co/SM8xUxUxGL

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2017-01-12