Confused About Cochineal? Ask Kathy!
…and a textile grade extract. The choice to use cochineal insects or extract is really the choice of the craft dyer. Some prefer the ritual of preparing the cochineal bath…
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A Perfect Red: A Story of Cochineal
…news that there was no cochineal extract available. Cochineal growers decided that the cost and effort of raising cochineal was too steep for the prices they were being paid and…
Pretty In Pink : Cochineal Instructions
…Dictionary being used to describe pale reds is the late seventeenth century”. Our recipe today comes from the historically charged and potently packed insect cochineal. 100g of whole cochineal insects…
Dyeing For Dummies: The Wonders of Cochineal
…began to smell like hints of death warmed over. Cochineal is a red dye consisting of dried female cochineal insects that feed on the nopal cactus, sucking moisture and nutrients…
MORDANT MONDAY: Is It The Mordant Or The Cochineal?
…mordant and describe the mordanting steps. 2. Are you using cochineal insects or cochineal extract? If you are using cochineal extract, which one? 3. What type of red are you…
Whole Cochineal Insects
Whole Cochineal Insects 100g of Whole Cochineal Insects will dye about 900 grams (2 pounds) of fiber to a deep red shade. For detailed instructions, please see our page on…
Our Top 8 Picks For The Most Durable Natural Dyes
…sage green to olive. Shop pomegranate Cochineal Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect that invades the nopal cactus and is about the size of a grain of rice with…
The Many Faces of Sappanwood Extract: Just Add More (Or Less) Dye + Iron
…using our new sappanwood extract. Look at the beautiful hues above just from using 5% sappanwood extract (calculated as a percentage of the weight of the fiber, or WOF) along…
MORDANT MONDAY: How Do You Get That Really Red Cochineal?
…nice true red using two dyes: madder and cochineal with a tannin and alum mordant. I dyed first with madder and achieved a deep reddish orange, then overdyed with cochineal….
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
…colors on my silks. I am dyeing yarns. With my cochineal extract however, I cannot get anything darker than a midd-ish depth of color. Nice color but I need deeper….