#cochineal — Public Fediverse posts
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@user47 LOL you know, they used to send galleons from Spain for that stuff.
It was a big target of pirates in the Caribbean! (arhhh!)
I find it amusing my backyard is full of one of the most valuable things you could have possession of in the 1500's.
"...When Hernán Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1521, he observed the city’s markets were filled with vibrant red textiles. The red dye came from the cochineal bug, a small insect, found on prickly pear cactus. Europeans had struggled to produce a good red dye, more often getting corals and russets instead of vivid reds. Cochineal was so valuable the Aztec empire required it as a tribute and its production became one of Spain’s most closely guarded secrets...."
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@user47 LOL you know, they used to send galleons from Spain for that stuff.
It was a big target of pirates in the Caribbean! (arhhh!)
I find it amusing my backyard is full of one of the most valuable things you could have possession of in the 1500's.
"...When Hernán Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1521, he observed the city’s markets were filled with vibrant red textiles. The red dye came from the cochineal bug, a small insect, found on prickly pear cactus. Europeans had struggled to produce a good red dye, more often getting corals and russets instead of vivid reds. Cochineal was so valuable the Aztec empire required it as a tribute and its production became one of Spain’s most closely guarded secrets...."
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@user47 LOL you know, they used to send galleons from Spain for that stuff.
It was a big target of pirates in the Caribbean! (arhhh!)
I find it amusing my backyard is full of one of the most valuable things you could have possession of in the 1500's.
"...When Hernán Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1521, he observed the city’s markets were filled with vibrant red textiles. The red dye came from the cochineal bug, a small insect, found on prickly pear cactus. Europeans had struggled to produce a good red dye, more often getting corals and russets instead of vivid reds. Cochineal was so valuable the Aztec empire required it as a tribute and its production became one of Spain’s most closely guarded secrets...."
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@user47 LOL you know, they used to send galleons from Spain for that stuff.
It was a big target of pirates in the Caribbean! (arhhh!)
I find it amusing my backyard is full of one of the most valuable things you could have possession of in the 1500's.
"...When Hernán Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1521, he observed the city’s markets were filled with vibrant red textiles. The red dye came from the cochineal bug, a small insect, found on prickly pear cactus. Europeans had struggled to produce a good red dye, more often getting corals and russets instead of vivid reds. Cochineal was so valuable the Aztec empire required it as a tribute and its production became one of Spain’s most closely guarded secrets...."