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Islamic Walpaper Biography
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In the early 1600s, the French introduced flocked wallpaper. Flock is powdered wool or silk left over from the manufacture of cloth. The background color was applied first and the design was then stenciled on with a slow-drying adhesive. The flock was scattered onto the adhesive and a velvet-like pile was left on the design. Flocked wallpaper that imitated cut velvet was very popular but more expensive. English flocked papers (papiers d’Angleterre) were considered superior to French and fans of the English product included Madame de Pompadour, who used English flock papers in her apartments at Versailles and in the Chateau de Champs.
Prior to the 1700s, wallpaper was usually used in less important rooms, with the walls in “public” rooms hung with fabric. In the 18th century, with advances in printing and the commissioning of artists to design custom papers, wallpaper was no longer relegated to private quarters and the demand increased. At first, in addition to flocked papers that imitated cut velvet, trompe loeil papers (papers that “fooled the eye”) of architectural details , marble, and wood were most fashionable, and were often used with borders depicting swags of fabric or tassels. .

In the early 18th century, the most beautiful and extravagant wallpapers in Europe and the American colonies came from China.

The earliest documentation for printing wallpaper in America dates to a December 13,1756 advertisement of John Hickey, “lately from Dublin” whose ad in the New York Mercury noted that he he “stamps or prints paper in the English manner and hangs it so as to harbour no worms.” In 1765 another New Yorker, John Rugar, is recorded as having begun the manufacture of wallpaper and, in 1769, Plunket Fleeson, a Philadelphia upholsterer who had been in business at least since 1739, ran an announcement about the manufacture of American “paper-hangings of all kinds and colors, not inferior to those generally imported and as low in price. Also papier maché, or raised paper mouldings for hangings, in imitation of carving, either colored or gilt…As there is considerable duty imposed on paper-hangings imported here, it cannot be doubted but that everyone amongst us who wishes prosperity to America will give a preference to our own manufacture, especially on the above proposition of equally good and cheap.”  Prior to the American Revolution, English papers were copied but after the Revolutionary war, patriotic themes were very popular in addition to florals, neoclassical motifs, and traditional patterns.

In 1778, sizes of wallpaper began to be standardized when King Louis XVI of France issued a decree specifying that the length of a wallpaper roll should be about 34 feet.  In 1785, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, a Frenchman, invented the first wallpaper printing machine. Around the same time, another Frenchman, Nicholas Louis Robert invented a way to make a virtually endless roll of wallpaper from wood pulp instead of cotton and linen fiber, which also made it less costly.