Beautiful Walpaper Biography source(google.com) By the first quarter of the nineteenth century the abundance of high quality French wallpaper threatened the existence of many American wallpaper firms. Though many American paper stainers claimed to offer domestic papers of the same quality as French papers, their main selling point was that they were "inexpensive." The difference in craftsmanship between the two countries in this period is obvious. The French excelled in creating three-dimensional modeled forms and demonstrated an adherence to realism not found in early American wallpaper de1973_101absigns. Aiming for the high end of the marketplace, the French exported rainbow papers, floral patterns with realistically-depicted bouquets and sprays, imitation drapery and marble masonry designs, charming landscape figure papers, flocked borders with faithfully rendered flowers and expensive scenic landscape papers. The latter represent the highest achievement in French wallpape...
