{"id":41,"date":"2020-12-02T22:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/designs\/?p=41"},"modified":"2020-12-12T23:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T23:15:52","slug":"arsenic-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/designs\/arsenic-39\/","title":{"rendered":"arsenic 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a pretty subtle design. There are a lot of skulls, it’s true, but they’re small and incorporated into the background pattern of the design. It’s hard to get a sense of scale on computers, but scroll down for some mockups of how it looks as wallpaper and as pillows, and you’ll see what I mean by delicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wallpapers made with pigments from arsenic\u2014it was a thing in the 19th century! And now you can pay tribute to your colorful goth side in these patterns but without the risk of dying from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The base pattern for this design comes from the 1874 volume compiled by R.C. Kedzie, Shadows from the walls of death: facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers<\/em>. The book was digitized in full by the amazing staff at the U.S. National Library of Medicine and can be viewed at http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/0234555<\/a>. You can also read more about the book and its preservation and digitization in the blog series at https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/05\/11\/facts-and-inferences-digitizing-shadows-from-the-walls-of-death-part-3\/<\/a> (links to parts 1 and 2 are at the end of this post). The skulls interposed in this pattern are my addition and are taken from J.G. Heck\u2019s 1852 Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art<\/em>, digitized in full by the Smithsonian Libraries and available at https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/IconographicencPLATHeck\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallpaper, fabric, and various household goods from this pattern are available for purchase at Spoonflower<\/a>; shirts and hoodies for adults and onesies and shirts for wee ones, as well as some notebooks and bags, are available at Threadless<\/a>; scarves and a robe are for sale at Contrado<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a delicate wallpaper if that’s your thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think it might work better as fabric? Here’s a set of pillows in Spoonflower’s mockup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A friend requested this pattern in a onesie, and I ended up making a skull inception that I love:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doesn’t the cute goth in your life deserve a shirt like this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or maybe you want to be wrapped up in a soft skull robe? I do like Contrado’s scarves (and you can get this pattern in a scarf, too), but I haven’t tried this expensive robe, so I can’t swear by it. But I like the idea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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