How To Use cochin In A Sentence
- Often one ship loads entirely at Goa, and the rest go to Cochin, which is 100 leagues to the south. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
- Cuthbert Gordon credits the development of cudbear in this way; he claimed to find a plentiful source for a certain lichen and, knowing that the purple colors it made are easily destroyed by light, set himself to find a stabilization method. reference Similarly, Jean-Baptiste Pont's descriptions of his inspiration for finding a more efficient dye extraction process was, he claimed, based on knowledge of the high cost of cochineal. reference Other petitions — Johann Carl Barth's for a privilege in Saxony to produce a blue dye from lacmus, for instance — do not mention the discovery process at all but concentrate instead on the economic advantage of the production method and the deliberation that its reworking demanded. 2 The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Our ideas of what colours looked like come from stained glass of the period or paintings, but in reality they would have been quite different as they came not from pigments but from vegetable dyes, like madderwort (red), weld (yellow) and woad (blue), all from plants, to the reds of kermes and cochineal extracted from crushed insects. Archive 2007-05-01
- The silkworm, the lac insect, and the bee need no apologist; a gallnut produced by the puncture of a cynips on a Syrian oak is a necessary ingredient in the ink I am writing with, and from my windows I recognize the grain of the kermes and the cochineal in the gay habiliments of the holiday groups beneath them. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
- For example: -- Cochineal, if mordanted with alum, will give a crimson colour; with iron, purple; with tin, scarlet; and with chrome or copper, purple. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
- Most notably there is the cochineal, a small insect that lives on cacti, which is widely used as a source of red food dye. Clipmarks | Live Clips
- She decided she wanted to find a black chicken, to pair with Garrett, and Zora hoped to find either another Cochin or an Araucana. The Chicken Chronicles
- The kermes was expensive and the abundant cochineal insect could be used to make a cheap substitute.
- The cactus, or more precisely, the cochineal insects that feed on it yield a red-purple stain when crushed.
- The term scarlet as employed in the Old Testament was used to designate the blood-red color procured from an insect somewhat resembling cochineal, found in great quantities in Armenia and other eastern countries. Forty Centuries of Ink
