
The Secret Lives of Color
99% Invisible
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What Is Sheila's Green?
Greens were elusive. Some artists were able to create vibrant greens by using a kind of intermediary layers. But there aren't really very many stable, natural green pigments that artists have access to. When they started being created in this kind of rush of new chemicals and an experimentation in the nineteenth century, they were taken up rapidly. In particular, a green called sheila's green. This was created by a swedishm scientist in 17 75. It got taken up by artists and war pave manufacturers and dressmakers incredibly quickly. Within a decade, it was all over the country, all over the world. Used in wall paper and dress fabric, you know, you name it.
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