Wallpaper of the day was colored with a vibrant pigment called Scheele’s Green. Victorians loved their colorful interiors, whose backdrops were often ornate, floral wallpapers. The wallpaper’s ...

Weirdly, unless you're the type to look at your nice green wallpaper and wonder if it's quietly murdering you, the stomach cramps, urge to vomit and headaches ceased every night when he went to bed.

But the vivid floral wallpapers were at the center of a consumer controversy about what made something safe to have in your home. The root of the problem was the color green, writes art ...