T-shirt - cyanotype - toxic?

OMU

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Hello,
I have made a t-shirt for my grandson with a picture of him made in cyanotype.

And now there is an important question, could it be toxic or harmful for my grandson to use the shirt?

 

Loris Medici

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Absolutely not. Prussian Blue is totally harmless... It's used orally for heavy metal poisoning.
 

Gerald C Koch

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Prussian Blue is also responsible for the color of blue jeans.
 

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Having survived being liberally painted with Prussian Blue, as part of a Navy "Blue Nose" initiation for crossing the arctic circle, I can attest that there are no ill effects.

Stains for days yes, illness no.
 

Tom1956

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Seems like first time you washed it, it would be ruined, imo.
 

heterolysis

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You can liberate hydrogen cyanide from Prussian blue...but the chemicals you'd need to do so would be more dangerous to him than the cyanide itself
 
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