Hibiscus flower Dye and Lake Pigment

It was the first week of the WHO declaring Covid-19 a pandemic. The governor of California had announced the state’s very first two-week lockdown and asked everyone to ‘hunker down at home’. All shops (except essentials) were shut for in-store purchases and I was particularly weary of ordering anything online. Those were the days of possible surface exposure to SARS-COV2. Now imagine the panic that gripped me, during such a time, as I stared at my only bottle of red ink that I had just accidentally toppled, spilling more than half of its red contents on to the floor. While…