Kermes is a red dye derived from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. The Kermes insects...

insect, Kermes, which were gathered commercially in Mediterranean countries, where they live on the kermes oak, and sold throughout Europe. Kermes dyes have...

Kermes may refer to : Kermes (insect), a genus of insects Kermes (dye), a red dye made from the bodies of Kermes insects Kermes oak also called Quercus...

including: Kermes bacciformis Leonardi, 1908 Kermes corticalis (Nassonov, 1908) Kermes echinatus (Balachowsky, 1953) Kermes gibbosus Signoret, 1875 Kermes ilicis...

Kermes vermilio is a species of Kermes which feeds on trees. Some of the species are used by humans to make vermilion; though a mineral form used in many...

silk-weaving centers of Italy, colored with kermes. Kermes is extracted from the dried unlaid eggs of the insect Kermes vermilio or Kermococcus vermilio found...

meaning "berry yielding scarlet dye". A related word kermes refers to the source of a weaker red Mediterranean dye also called crimson, which was used...

Greece, including Crete. The Kermes Oak was historically important as the food plant of Kermes scale insects, from which a red dye called crimson was obtained...

Ages. kermes Kermes is a natural dye derived from the dried unlaid eggs of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio...

including carmine and kermes dyes, and shellac lacquer. The two red colour-names crimson and scarlet both derive from the names of Kermes products in other...

is the term that was used in ancient times for the Kermes vermilio insect used to make the Kermes dye. This was also the origin of the expression "dyed...

invertebrate dyes Tyrian purple and crimson kermes were highly prized luxury items in the ancient and medieval world. Plant-based dyes such as woad,...

name is derived from the word kermes as denoting the compound’s red color. The origins of the term is from the French kermès, which is short for alkermès...

no longer wear Tyrian purple, and instead wear scarlet, from kermes and alum, since the dye from Byzantium was no longer available. Bishops and archbishops...

kermes, which fed on certain oak trees in Turkey, Persia, Armenia and other parts of the Middle East. The insects contained a very strong natural dye...

also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye. The name Tyrian refers to Tyre, Lebanon, once Phoenicia...

of dyeing terms BDH laboratory chemicals & biochemicals catalogue 1983 Important Early Synthetic Dyes 1991 Smithsonian Institution Stainsfile dye index...

other dyes such as indigo, was introduced to other regions through trade. Natural insect dyes such as Cochineal and kermes and plant-based dyes such as...

colorant carmine was extracted from the bodies of dead female insects such as Kermes vermilio and cochineal.: 131  The form of the term may also have been influenced...

amber, ivory (as found at the Grafenbühl Tomb) and probably wine. Red kermes dye was imported from the south as well; it was found at Hochdorf. Notable...

component of the red dye kermes (false carmine). The compound is the aglycone of carminic acid, the main component of true carmine. As a dye, it is known as...

real, proper.' Kermes (insect genus), kermes (dye), kermes oak (tree), kermesite (mineral) قِرمِز qirmiz [qirmiz] (listen), dye from kermes-type scale insects...

dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century brought the introduction of the first synthetic red dyes, which replaced the traditional dyes. Red became...

superfamily Coccoidea. The type genus, Kermes, includes the kermes scale insects, from which a red dye, also called kermes (a.k.a. crimson), is obtained. Wikispecies...

expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye kermes. Arabic siklāt is first attested around the ninth century, and now thought...

Shoshone County, Idaho. Kermesite is named after a formerly used red dye, kermes (dye), and was so named because of the grainy reddish color the mineral...

distinction was in the cost of scarlet, which was dyed with kermes, derived from the Kermes vermilio insect native to the Mediterranean. Lincoln scarlet...

cochineal insect from Central and South America, Kermes lake came from a different scale insect, kermes vermilio, which thrived on oak trees around the...

the ancient natural sources of red dye in the Middle East and Europe, along with the insect dyes kermes (from Kermes vermilio and related species), lac...

ingredients. Kermes is a red dye from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. Kermes are native...