April 30, 2026
Tag: Cochineal
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God, Glory and Gold vs. God, Glory and … Dead Bugs
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The cochineal is an insect slightly larger than a poppy seed. The bug’s carcass is the prime ingredient in creating a natural dye using carmine. Primarily a parasite, they are native to tropical and subtropical South America and up through North America and are collected from the pad of prickly pear cacti.
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January 5, 2020 1 Comment
[Editor’s note: I had a “thing” years ago about cleaning the garage on New Year’s Day. I don’t do that any longer for I must do things when I am spirited into action. When I recently decided that the top drawer of my filing cabinet needed to be “thinned out” I found this piece of […]