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Ok, now this is a yellow wallpaper. Those pink vine patterns totally evoke skulls to me, and the color of the paper makes me of course think of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, so I wanted to have skulls emerge from some of the vines, but not all. I wish it was a bit more random, to be honest, but the combination of my photoshop skills and Spoonflower’s limits have temporarily foiled me. I love it anyway. Scroll down for possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wallpapers made with pigments from arsenic—it 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’s 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 underway to be sold at Spoonflower<\/a>, but I have to get proofs first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you crawling the walls yet? Maybe this is the one that I should put on the wall outside my laundry room…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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