Dyeing

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Title

Dyeing

Description

Natural dyes can be made from a variety of plants and even animals: q’olle (flowers), molle (leaves), tayaka (leaves), chiqchi (root), qaqa sunkha (lichen), chillka (leaves), cochinilla (cochineal, a form of insect), mot’e mot’e (fruit), chaphi (branch), kinsa q’ucha or quin sak’ucho (branch with fungus), and anil (indigo, not currently grown in Cusco).