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The Secret Lives of Color
99% Invisible
Colors and Colors Interacted With Colonization and Trade Around the World
Colours and color have been one of those things that people go and take over other countries for. Cocheneles is much stronger than the kermes dye that had been originally used to a colour scarlet cloth. And so ncochenil was one of the product that the spanish were desperate to get their hands on in order to get this red colorant back to europe, where it was more cost effective.
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