cochineal

kokenilli

kokenillikirva A species of insect ((taxlink)).
A vivid red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.
A vivid red color produced from dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.
2000, Leaves of Grass, by Mark Z. Danielewski, pg. 26

I just keep staring at all the ink we have, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps...

The principal imports arriving by sea, then as previously, were textiles, among them coarse cotton cloth, known as Surat, the Indian port from which they were shipped, as well as blue cotton cloth and cochineal cloth called kemis

Batavus, of somewhat the same shade, was slightly taller, and perhaps with a little more cochineal color.