Dyeing or Dying — When Women Wore Arsenic

Photo by MariaBeatrice Alonzi on Unsplash

Before synthetic dyes we used all kinds of things to color our clothes. We’ve used herbs, beetles, sea snail secretions, soils, berries…

…and some of those things were toxic.

Going “Green” in a Toxic Way

Bright green was very fashionable in Victorian Britain. And it was made using…arsenic.