July 18, 2025
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.
Past Article
August 15, 2024 3 Comments
Ellie McCrackin returns to the Postcard History list of contributors with an encore to an essay she wrote years ago about the Grimm Brothers. It is inspired by her discovery of a complete set of UvaChrom postcards (Series 320) entitled Die Sieben Raben.