Sharon,
I found this on a webpage about aniline dyes,
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3983/is_200012/ai_n8905150/pg_4
. I really don't recommend going to this link because it wants to put too
many cookies on your computer. But is this what you were referring to? The
webpage makes several references to colors and dyes mentioned in Godey's.
"Green, of the new shade called Metternich" was likewise "very fashionable"
for a brief period between 1868 and 1870.41 Schultz reported that Metternich
green was one of the trade names for iodine green, discovered in 1866.42
Presumably the name refers to the Princess Metternich, an acknowledged
leader of Paris fashion, 43 who may have worn the color and thus made it
fashionable. According to Challamel, green had fallen out of favor
completely by 1861 because of cases of women who were poisoned by making or
wearing garments colored with one of the arsenic-based green pigments, such
as Scheele's green or Schweinfurt green. Since these were pigments and not
dyes, the color could rub or flake off Despite this, arsenic green appeared
in Godey's in 1867.44 Iodine green was a dye, not a pigment, and did not
pose the same danger to the wearer. Because the Princess Metternich was
known for her eccentricity, she might have adopted green in defiance of
popular thought. "
Off to run my spyware to get rid of all these cookies. I gave up on that
webpage after seven requests to put cookies on my computer.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
www.costumelibrary.com
www.costumeclassroom.com
www.costumeencyclopedia.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon at Collierfam.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Historical Costume'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:53 AM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Harmful Fabrics
Also, I remember something about a certain kind of green dye being
dangerous. It was used in fabric and wallpaper, and children who ate the
paper scraps got sick, also the people wearing a garment could get sick.
There was something on this list a while ago about someone having an old
dress she wanted to wear, but was told to be careful because of
potentially
harmful dyes.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Penny Ladnier
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:26 PM
To: h-costume
Subject: [h-cost] Harmful Fabrics
I am putting online a fashion terms dictionary from 1894. I came across
asbestos being used in fabrics. What are some of the other past fabrics
or
dyes that have been found to be harmful to the wearer? I am worried now
because I am working with a large fashion collection at the university. I
came across a bonnet lined with wool that I am allergic too. I broke out
in
a rash and was sneezing uncontrollably.
Here is the definition from the book:
Asbestos : A fibrous variety of a mineral substance, composed of separate
filaments, with a silky luster. Its fibers are sometimes flexible and
elastic, sometimes stiff and brittle, and when reduced to a powder are
soft
to the touch. It is incombustible, and the fine qualities have been spun
and
woven into gloves, shrouds, cloth for firemen's suits, lamp-wicks, roofs,
floors and for various other fire-proofing purposes. Its feeble
consistency
has always has always been the chief obstacle to its general use among
textile fabrics. It was mined in 1894 in Canada, Vermont, Virginia, South
Carolina and on Staten Island, New York.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
www.costumelibrary.com
www.costumeclassroom.com
www.costumeencyclopedia.com
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