Cochineal dye

Ancient · Manufacturing · 200 BCE

TL;DR

Cochineal dye - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Cochineal dye - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Kermes dye Pigments

Required Knowledge

  • Pigments

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Cochineal dye:

Prussian blue

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Pigments Kermes dye Prussian blue

Tags

Textiles

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