Paris green was another popular choice ... Like lead in paint being dangerous from paint flaking off later, arsenic wallpaper dye could flake off from the wallpaper. It was dangerous if consumed ...

Victorian-era publishers used arsenic to colour book bindings, in pigments such as Paris Green, Emerald Green and Scheele's Green, named after a German-born chemist. The Poison Book Project says ...

She said arsenic fell out of use when new shades of green came into fashion and there were developments in the paint and pigment industry. "Every time we see a wallpaper with a specific green ...

Publishers then turned to emerald and Paris green dye - which was more ... and in house paint. 'I knew about wallpapers that ...