The Polish kermes (Coccus polonicus) was formerly used very much in Europe.
Kermes is a red dye caused by a small insect similar to that of the cochineal insect; it was used for dyeing and for making pigments, both in classical and mediæval times.
In addition to these dyes, lakes were prepared from kermes and the celebrated murex.
Orpiment is an unsafe colour to use, while kermes will fade in a strong light, besides being no longer an article of commerce.
If the Kermes was old and flat, a pound of it would be required for each pound of wool.
The Kermes is then thrown into warm water in the proportion of 12 oz.
To prepare wool for the Kermes dye, it is to be boiled in water with about a.
Kermes consists of the dried bodies of a small scale insect, Coccus ilicis, found principally on the ilex oak, in the South of Europe.
The dye still remaining in the liquor may serve to dip a little fresh parcel of prepared wool; it will take some colour in proportion to the goodness and quality of the Kermes put into the copper.
Kermes for each pound of wool to be dyed, if a full and well coloured scarlet is wanted.
Bancroft says "The Kermes red or scarlet, though less vivid, is more durable than that of cochineal.
Wool prepared with a nitro-muriatic solution of tin (as is now practised for the cochineal scarlet) and dyed with Kermes takes a kind of aurora, or reddish orange colour.
This takes up a kind of scum which the Kermes cast up, by which the wool that is afterwards dipped, acquires a finer colour.
The surgeons, mad with ambition of acting as physicians, think themselves sufficiently qualified when there is nothing to be done but to give kermes and emetics, to which they add bleeding at the foot, according to their own fancy.
They even proceed so far as to mix kermes in apozems and cordial potions; and so they are on a par with your celebrated prescribers.
Wash all these sediments with warm water, till they become insipid; then dry them, and you have the Kermes Mineral.
Now, Kermes Mineral, prepared as above directed, is no other than a Liver of Sulphur combined with a certain quantity of Regulus of Antimony.
To restore its ability of acting as well as at first, or nearly so, you need only let it cool, and deposite the Kermes dissolved in it.
It is necessary to pulverize the melted mass, and to steep it in boiling hot water for an hour or two, that the water may dissolve and divide it sufficiently to make the Kermes fine and beautiful.
If left to settle and cool when well saturated therewith, it gradually deposites the Antimony it had taken up, which precipitates in the form of a red powder; and this precipitate is the celebrated remedy known by the name of Kermes Mineral.
The cochineal, long regularly bred in aboriginal America, has been transplanted to Spain, and both the kermes insect and the cantharides have been transferred to other climates than their own.
As I saw her then, so I see her now: the same staggering attempts to hoist the prey to the mouth of the burrow; the same brawls between males watching in the brushwood of the kermes oak.
No more thyme, no more lavender, no more clumps of kermes oak, the dwarf oak that forms forests across which we step by lengthening our stride a little.
Ibrahim Kermes celebrated his liberation with a banquet, to which Simplex was also invited, and regaled with mutton in twelve different editions.
Only at the third signal did Kermes reflect that it was growing late, and begin to climb down from the plum tree.
But Ibrahim Kermes swore by the beard of the Prophet that he would never again buy a Calvinist giaour as a slave, even if he could get him for a single denarius.
The wearing apparel of six women will consist of: Six women's haïks, dyed with kermes 60 douros.
At the above period, a great deal of the German kermes was consumed in Venice, for dyeing the scarlet to which that city gives its name.
The red caps for the Levant are dyed at Orleans with equal parts of kermes and madder; and occasionally with the addition of some Brazil wood.
Cochineal and lac-dye have now nearly superseded the use of kermes as a tinctorial substance, in England.
Hellot says that previous to dyeing in the kermes bath, he threw a handful of wool into it, in order to extract a blackish matter, which would have tarnished the colour.
The principal varieties of kermes are the coccus quercus, the coccus polonicus, the coccus fragariae, and the coccus uva ursi.
The kermes called coccus fragariae, is found principally in Siberia, upon the root of the common strawberry.
After the discovery of America, cochineal having been introduced, began to supersede kermes for all brilliant red dyes.
Kermes is found not only upon the lycopodium complanatum in the Ukraine, but upon a great many other plants.
The coccus quercus insect lives in the south of Europe upon the kermes oak.
The kermesfalls down in a brown-red powder, as the liquor cools.
In the department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, one half of the kermes crop is dried.
Kermes has been known in the East since the days of Moses; it has been employed from time immemorial in India to dye silk; and was used also by the ancient Greek and Roman dyers.
Good kermesis plump, of a deep red colour, of an agreeable smell, and a rough and pungent taste.
Sometimes a preliminary tint was given with coccus, the kermes of the present day, and the cloth received merely a finish from the precious animal juice.
TO Amsterd-m came Breitmann All in deKermes tide; Yonge Maegden allegader Filled de straat on afery side.
Und Kermes cakes mit boetry, Vitch land-volk dinks a dreat, Mit all of Barnum's blayed out shows In dents along de shdreet.
The species from which kermesis obtained is common in Spain, Italy and the South of France and the Mediterranean basin generally, where it feeds on Quercus coccifera, a small shrub.
Mineral kermes is trisulphide of antimony, containing a variable portion of trioxide of antimony both free and combined with alkali.
In the pharmacopoeia of the ancients kermes triturated with vinegar was used as an outward application, especially in wounds of the nerves.
In the Middle Ages the dye from the kermeswas still called "vermiculata," of which the word vermilion is a literal translation.
Kermes consists of the dried bodies of a small scale insect, Coccus ilicis, found principally on the ilex oak, in the South of Europe, and still used there.
At the present time the Kermes are only gathered in Europe by the peasantry of the provinces in which they are found, but they still continue to be employed as of old in a great part of India and Persia.
Brookes says the women gather the harvest of Kermes insects before sunrise, tearing them off with their nails; and, for fear there should be any loss from the hatching of the insects, they sprinkle them with vinegar.
On account, probably, of its extreme costliness, it was frequently the custom to dye the cloth with a ground of kermes or alkanet, previous to applying the Tyrian purple.
Kermes Lake Is an ancient pigment, perhaps the earliest of the European lakes, and so called from the Arabic Alkermes.
As a colouring matter, kermes is only about one-twelfth part as powerful as that substance.
Kermes and the lac of India doubtless afforded the lakes of the Venetians, and appear to have been used by the earliest painters in oil of the school of Van Eyck.
Purple of a very magnificent tint was occasionally made by a mixture of ultramarine with the carmine-red of the kermes beetle; this was specially used by the illuminators of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
For the woven stuffs of classical and mediaeval times, and in the East even at the present day, the kermes is one of the most beautiful and important of all the colours used for dyeing.
The red dyes, kermes and madder, and the yellow dye weld, are especially mordant or adjective dyes: they are all dyed on an aluminous basis.
Of these, kermes is the king; brighter than madder and at once more permanent and more beautiful than cochineal: the latter on an aluminous basis gives a rather cold crimson, and on a tin basis a rather hot scarlet (e.
The crimsons in Gothic tapestries must have been got by dyeing kermes over pale shades of blue, since the crimson red-dye, cochineal, had not yet come to Europe.
In the middle ages, as they are called, we meet with kermes under the name of vermiculus or vermiculum; and on that account cloth dyed with them was called vermiculata.
First, the root-kermes contain less colouring matter than the kermesof France and Spain.
We find, however, that the kermes were boiled with urine in a linen bag (in linteolo raro): addis hurinam expumatam.
It may be replied that the Romans themselves dyed with kermes at this period, and that they must have easily procured it.
Kermes were perhaps not known in Arabia; at least they were not indigenous, as the Arabs appear to have had no name for them.
Dioscorides says that the Spanish kermes were bad[1162]; and we are expressly told by Garidel, that they are still of less value than the French.
As the coccus is mentioned likewise by Moses and other Hebrew writers, kermes must have been met with at that period in some of the remote countries of the East[1157].
The kermes of Spain are so well known that it is not necessary to bring proofs of their being a production of that country.
Arles, in the middle of the twelfth century, sold to the Jews the kermes collected at St. Chamas and other parts of his diocese.
Note: The kermes insect has long been used for dyeing red or scarlet.
To dye in grain, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n.
Defn: A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermesinsect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kermes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
