Don't fool yourself that there Were aniline dies. They ARE still in use today and probably in your home. Many are used for the stains on wood right up to the present. Again, don't breathe the stuff. Shucks, they tell you not to breathe wood smoke because it is bad for your lungs! They are right, but that isn't going to make me give up my nice pine or cedar wood campfires, marshmallows, hot dogs (you REALLY don't want to know what goes into hot dogs...
Try Googling Aniline dye and see how much of it you have around you. Be careful, work in a well ventilated area. Let your work dry thoroughly before you use the piece. Hundreds of compounds that scientists would have us shuddering under out beds (not mine, I have dust bunnies under there that are a menace to society) about. The truth is that most can be used with care. Others we have found different compounds to do the thing. White lead makeup comes to mind. Before someone goes off about the dangers of white lead and babbles about what it did to Queen Elizabeth's complexion, remember she lived to be 70 with all the sickness and dangerous things she did as a matter of course. Personally, I don't use white lead in my makeup, but I wonder what scientists 400 years from now, or even 100 years from now will say about Gatorade and some of the other things we drink as a matter of course. Wanda > sets. > > > > > Well, there were all kinds of "aniline" dyes of various > compositions, and > many of them were probably nasty to use in the dyeing process, > but not after > they were fixed in the fabrics. > > Ann Wass > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
