And let's not forget about Scheele's Green and Emerald Green--Wikipedia
lists them at 1775 and 1814 respectively. Neither one would have been
very pleasant to encounter due to the arsenic content.
Joseph Stevens
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The first aniline dye, mauve, was discovered in 1856. It was a few years
before aniline greens hit the market. Before that, dyeing green was almost
always at least a two-step process--dyeing with indigo blue and then overdyeing
with a yellow (or vice versa). Since indigo is a vat dye, one can't just mix
blue and yellow in a dye bath to get green. There was one natural green,
lo-kao, imported from China by the mid-19th century, but it is a very vibrant
bright green, not at all what one would use for men's wear. It was a novelty
and mostly used to dye silk for women's dresses.
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