Bill Bryson’s book, “At Home,” tells of the popularity of wallpaper and the use of arsenic in producing it. Bryson notes that in the late 1890s people observed the connection between chronic illness ...

The earliest surviving fragment of European wallpaper, found in Christ's College Cambridge, dates from 1509. It was made by Hugo Goes of York, and has a damask-style design of pomegranates derived ...

Those looks might strike you dead, but in the Victorian period, wallpaper could–and did–kill. In one sense, it wasn’t that unusual, writes Haniya Rae for The Atlantic.

Morris didn’t just have his identity as an artist linked to the wallpaper industry and its arsenic pigments, which allowed for the mass production of newly vibrant and durable colors; his wealth ...

Wallpaper has seen a huge rise in popularity, and vintage styles are following suit. Expert Sarah Bilotta tells us about the historic trend that's coming back.

EGREMONT — "The day was dull, the light was grey and the bold patterns in the drawing room were forming into a storm." The wallpaper of the Braithwite house holds many secrets. For Lucy Braithwite, ...

Baskerville signs Varese’s Victorian thriller based on the true story of arsenic-laced wallpaper Rights Apr 28, 2022 by Lauren Brown J M Varese ...