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Published at 2560 × 1920 in A Holiday Feast of Colorants
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from left to right: a pile of magenta silk scraps, a glass beaker with dark magenta liquid, a glass funnel with dyed silk shavings filtering into a beaker.

Extracting the cochineal dyestuff from dyed silk shavings. Credit: Cindy Connelly Ryan.