WALLPAPER

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...

3x Walpaper Biography Prior to 1750, few colonists in New England could afford to decorate their homes with wallpaper (or painted paper as it was called in the eighteenth century), and surviving examples from this period are rare. There is documentation that wallpaper was available as early as 1700 as evidenced by the inventory of a Boston bookseller which lists "7 quires of painted paper and three reams of painted paper." Wealthy urban colonists could purchase "painted paper" (a translation of the French term papier peint) from stationers, book sellers and as a custom order from merchants who specialized in imported luxury goods. Wallpaper was an expensive decorative material, yet it was created as an affordable alternative to more costly wallcoverings The most sumptuous wallcoverings in seventeenth-century Europe were leather, silk or wool  damask and Italian cut velvets. Early eighteenth-century English flocked wallpaper frequently imitated the latter. Flocked pa...