Sentences with phrase «with cochineal»
Homemade marshmallows, he remembers, lightly coloured with cochineal, dusted with icing sugar.
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The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en chemise bedaubed with cochineal: mauve, purple tinting the water from the Odilon Redon sun setting.
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All starting with a white or cream base, I've over dyed each piece with a combination of plant dyes ranging from indigo, red onion skins, cochineal, & madder.
Conventional cosmetic companies are still formulating with this «natural» dye source, the bodies of crushed cochineal, also known as carmine.
Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Carmella Padilla and Barbara Anderson, eds., A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World, Skira Rizzoli, in association with the Museum of International Folk Art
«Quite a few of our living artists use cochineal,» says curator Nicolasa Chavez, «and she [the director] thought it would be an exciting exhibit, seeing that we're an international museum with an international collection.
Through a mix of historical research, and collaboration, the rugs are made by a family of traditional Mexican weavers and colored with a dye made from the cochineal beetle, an important export during the Spanish colonial period in Mexico.