Context: Unlike vermilion or red ochre, made from minerals, red lake pigments are made by mixing organic dyes, made from insects or plants, with white chalk or alum. Red lac was made from the gum lac, the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, particularly the Laccifer lacca from India. Carmine lake was made from the cochineal insect from Central and South America, Kermes lake came from a different scale insect, kermes vermilio, which thrived on oak trees around the Mediterranean. Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree.

Question: What was red ochre composed of?
Answer: minerals

Question: How were pigments like red lake created?
Answer: mixing organic dyes

Question: What was red lake composed of?
Answer: insects or plants, with white chalk or alum

Question: What was the source of color in Red lac?
Answer: the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects

Question: The Laccifer lacca was crucial to making what pigment?
Answer: Red lac

Question: What color lake pigments were made from minerals?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was made from red gum?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What continent is Laccifer lacca found on?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What country was carmine found?
Answer: Unanswerable