3x Walpaper Biography
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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 damaskand
Italian cut velvets. Early eighteenth-century English flocked wallpaper
frequently imitated the latter. Flocked papers were quite striking because of
their bright colors and large-scale foliate designs. An early flocked paper in
Historic New England’s collection is an unused sample found in the attic of the
house of stationer Thomas Hancock. This paper is believed to have hung in the
parlor of the prosperous merchant’s 1737 Boston home. The vivid crimson color
survives because the wallpaper was not continually exposed to sunlight or to
smoke from the fireplace.
By the mid-eighteenth century floral patterns based on more
common textile designs such as brocades and cotton chintzes had come to
dominate the market. A neatly composed daisy-like sprig paper
of 1760-1790 was found in a house in Ipswich, Massachusetts, installed over a
later paper dating from 1810-1815. Were it not for the charge stamp (see below)
found on the reverse, its English origin and earlier date would not be
conclusive. Block printed black, green and white on a pinkground this type of simple floral pattern remained
popular in New England into the mid-nineteenth century and has recently beenreproduced. Historic New England’s collection contains several
other examples of English hand-blocked floral wallpapers which were used as
pamphlet covers and as trunk linings. Though their original use on walls is
unknown, they serve as important documentation of eighteenth century color
schemes
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