Where do our patterns come from?
Recreating period wallpaper can be a fascinating journey through museums, libraries and historic buildings. Sometimes a small scrap or a faded sample is the only clue to what the wall covering originally looked like. Reading the clues and bringing a wallpaper pattern back to life requires a complete knowledge of historic ornament, an eye for color and painstaking attention to detail, but the results can be stunning. Read more A digital edition of Christopher
Dresser's Studies
in Design (1876) is available at the Smithsonian Libraries. Several
of the patterns in our Modern Ornamentation
collection are adapted from plates in this publication. |
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These periodicals explore historic styles, period design, vintage architecture, and past culture. :: Old
House Interiors :: |
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Mason and Wolf Wallpaper :: PO Box 6224 :: Freehold,
NJ 07728 |
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