Re: RHS Colors & Names
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- Subject: Re: RHS Colors & Names
- From: C* W* <c*@scranton.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 12:07:19 -0700 (MST)
Keith Romanczyk wrote:
>
> And speaking of esoteric names I was amused by the inclusion of 'Paris
> Green' as a color description. Highly popular around the turn of the
> century ( I think) the pigment was derived from arsenic trioxide. People
> had homes lavished with the color in the forms of wallpaper and paint.
> Then people started getting sick and dying.
>
> After that 'Paris Green' was the name for an insecticide and rat poison.
>
> A rather macabre reference. I'm surprised they still use the name. Maybe
> because it sounds 'romantic'.
I think now it refers to the color we see in the ittle sidewalk cafe
tables and park benches all over Paris==or at least the color American
manufacturers selling facsimiles of these use. I bought a can of this
for my own outdoor furniture, and in our light it was so bright I ended
up learning how to do faux verdigris--fast!
Carol
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