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Cochineal is the only natural dye on this website that does not come from a plant.
Before microscopes where in use, European scientists argued for a long time as to whether cochineal was a plant, an animal or a mineral.  We now know that cochineal is a female scale insect that lives on prickly pear cactus plants (Opuntia or nopal).
Dyeing with Cochineal - click here
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