Crimson, or crimson Lake, or carmine is sometimes the names given to the dye made from the dried bodies of the female cochineals although it is more common to call the pigment "cochineal" after the insect from which it is made.
Carmine is an aluminium and calcium salt of carminic acid and carmine lake is an aluminium or aluminum-tin lake of cochineal extract, whereas Crimson lake is prepared by striking down an infusion of cochineal with a 5 percent solution of alum and cream of tartar.
Purple lake is prepared like carmine lake with the addition of lime to produce the deep purple tone.
Al Carmines, a producer-composer-singer-actor who was one of the pioneers of the avant-garde Off-Off-Broadway theater movement in the 1960s, died on Tuesday, August 9 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village at age 69.
Carmines exhibited talent at an early age and won a scholarship that he could have applied to any music school, but he decided instead to go into the ministry and enrolled at Swarthmore, where he majored in English and philosophy.
Carmine and Nichols agreed with the proviso that the company would offer no religious plays and would not be subject to any form of censorship.
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