If subtly is your thing, here’s a very delicate and subtle arsenic paper, with skulls gently blooming on the vine. I love this one and was super excited when I had the vision of replacing the buds on the vines with little skulls. Scroll down for a preview of it as wallpaper!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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
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