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Published online 12 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030609-11
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William Morris made poisonous wallpaper
Arts and Crafts traditionalist manufactured and used arsenic-based greens.
William Morris (1834-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, Romantic, socialist, advocate of a return to traditional craft styles and materials - and a peddler of poisonous wallpaper, according to a new study1.
Andy Meharg of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland has found arsenic in the green pigment in an early sample of Morris's patterned wallpaper, produced some time between 1864 and 1875.
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