The blind musician was a little late in arriving, and we all sat round the drawing-room with our backs to the new blue wallpaper and longed for home.
The marble floors were covered with antique, and expensive, Persian rugs, and the light tan wallpaper was flecked with gold leaf, giving the feeling it could have been meticulously stripped from some palazzo in Venice.
The wallpaper was a light floral pattern and the overstuffed furniture was buried in enough pillows to please Martha Stewart.
The wallpaper was old and discoloured; a few almanacs and unframed prints were fixed to the walls, and on the mantelshelf were some cracked and worthless vases and ornaments.
The wallpaper in the back room was damaged and soiled in several places.
As Owen had to go to the office to see the wallpaper spoken of by Hunter, he accompanied Newman when the latter went to get his wages.
The pictorial wallpaper was printed by duFour in Paris, about 1825.
The wallpaper is a reproduction, presented by the Robert Graves Company of New York and copyrighted (1925).
The wallpaper in the side hall (downstairs) is a copy of the original, the part upstairs is the original.
But the wallpaper looks dusty," said Mrs. Stewart.
Gilded furniture with delicate satin upholstery, fought with wallpaper of heavy Spanish-leather design.
Apparently the old earl had discovered by experiment that the heavy, expensive wallpaper would not stick to the glossy panelling, so he had purchased a cheaper paper, and had pasted that on first.
This wallpaper seems to have been supplied by a tradesman in the station road in the village of Chizelrigg.
Where wallpaper is used, it should have the same characteristics.
The wallpaper should be simple and dignified in design, but of cheerful tone.
Illustration: The warm tones of a brown Chinese wallpaper are attractive with the mahogany furniture, and the pattern is prevented from becoming monotonous by the strong rectangular lines of the ivory woodwork which frames it.
Illustration: The wallpaper border, the bedspread, the table cover, and the curtains are all wrong in this room.
Illustration: A fine old Hepplewhite sideboard, with old glass and silver, but the modern wallpaper is not in harmony.
The repeat design of the wallpaper ties the room into a unified whole.
But the consequence was that if Sally happened to be irritable she saw the wallpaper, and the wallpaper drove her crazy.
The room had a stained ceiling and a wallpaper that had discoloured in streaks.
Her extremely good taste was beginning to bud, and wallpaperis as vital an aesthetic test as any other.
The conditions of some wallpaper factories seem to be unhealthy, partly owing to the hot air, the smell, and some of the material used, especially the arsenic.
He stepped up to the wallpaper and pointed with his finger.
Anyhow, I don’t believe the old gentleman frog would have cared, for Bawly’s papa was at work in the wallpaper factory and his mamma had gone to the five and ten cent store to buy a new dishpan that didn’t have a hole in it.
And Papa No-Tail was trying harder than ever to get loose, and the roll ofwallpaper rolled right toward Uncle Butter.
Why he picked up the very piece of wallpaper that was wrapped around Papa Chip-Chip—Oh, no, excuse me!
STORY XXII PAPA N One morning, bright and early, Papa No-Tail, the frog gentleman, started for the wallpaper factory where he worked at making patterns on the paper by dipping his feet in the different colored inks and jumping up and down.
Is it some new kind of wallpaper that you hopped on to-day after you dipped your feet in red and green ink?
Only I can’t be with you to-morrow, as I have to go to work in my wallpaper factory.
Then a man looked in the window of the wallpaper factory and, seeing no one there, he thought he would take a roll of paper home with him, to paste on his little boy’s bedroom.
The design is red, rust, and green on wood tones, harmonizing with the green of the ivy in the wallpaper pattern, and the rust of the draperies.
However, there is no set rule on the types of wallpaper to be used, good taste and personal preference being the main factors.
In some instances, the type of furnishings to be used will determine the type of wallpaper to be used.
Fruit and flower prints in gay colors on a light pastel or white background, gay stripes, or colorful figured wallpaper may be used.
Properly chosen, wallpaper is a suitable wall finish for practically any style of room, and a suitable background for practically any style of furniture.
Outdoor scenes, familiar scenes of the city, or a composite of photographic subjects of interest to the occupants of the room are applied to the wall either in the manner of wallpaper or in a frame as a gigantic picture.
Every tickler spool that goes to market is patterned like wallpaper with one of five designs of suitable subliminal supportive euphoric material.
After all, you're rerecording over the wallpaper all the time.
Nobody seemed to care at all that the wallpaper was being ruined.
The wallpaper showing a pattern of faded rosebuds was warped and ragged in many places.
Hamish, saying nothing, now walked over to the fireplace and began feeling along the pink rosebud wallpaper which edged it.
He then built a large addition to the two car garage at home and moved the paint and wallpaper there for storage.
It was about this time that my father opened a wallpaper and paint store on South Main Street.
There was plenty of wallpaper he was unable to sell and we kids used to have pieces to cut flowers and patterns with.
There were pictures on the walls which were now more covered with damask, brocade, silk, and wallpaper hung and plain paint than by wood wainscoting.
Use of thick, insulating wallpaper rose with the rise of paper mills.
She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wallpaper put up, the staircase repainted, and seats made in the garden round the sundial; she even inquired how she could get a basin with a jet fountain and fishes.
He showed with pride in the sitting room two small pencil sketched by her that he had had framed in very large frames, and hung up against the wallpaper by long green cords.
Near destitution and scouting around for fresh applications of the woodcut, he decided to make prints for wallpaper on his new press.
The first half deals with Jackson’s opinions on the origins of printing from movable type and the progress of cutting on wood, the second half with Jackson’s career and his venture into wallpaper manufacturing.
Contains new information on wallpaper manufacturers in London during the 18th century, some of it bearing on Jackson.
In England these imitations, which formed a substitute for expensive velvet and damask hangings, completely dominated the wallpaper field.
The most thorough book on the subject although the treatment of Jackson is narrowly confined, like most wallpaper books, to his shortcomings as a decorator for elegant homes.
While it is difficult to estimate the degree of Jackson’s influence in this development, we know that no scenic papers can be dated before the Ricci prints, or before Jackson’s wallpaper venture.
Wallpaper had come into popular use in England in the late 17th century, having been obtained from China by the East India Company.
In this approach to wallpaperwe see the basic ideas of Jackson, but with more emphasis on charm and elegance.
It is a transcription of Jackson’s manuscript journal and was prepared for publication to coincide with the launching of the wallpaper venture, Kirkall is mentioned as follows (pp.
Yet here more than twenty years later was the upstart Englishman again, venturing into wallpaper manufacturing with an air of moral superiority, attacking all other products as unworthy.
At its lowest ebb, in the late 17th century, and in the 18th, it was used to make patterns for workers in embroidery and needlework and to supply outlines for wallpaper designs to be filled in later by “paper-stainers.
Select from these samples the wallpaper design that you think would make the room look larger and the material to use for draperies in the room.
From the materials I am providing make an attractive table arrangement for a living room, and then choose a large piece of wallpaper or a textile that would make a good background for it.
A large wallpaper sample book and several samples of plain and figured fabrics in a variety of colors were provided for the two girls who did this shopping.
