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Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes,

offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold inrolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain (so that it

can be painted), textured (such as Anaglypta), or with patterned graphics.

Wallpaper printing techniques include surface printing, gravure printing, silk screen-

printing, rotary printing, and digital printing.[1] Mathematically speaking, there are

seventeen basic patterns, described as wallpaper groups, that can be used to tile an

infinite plane. All manufactured wallpaper patterns are based on these groups. A singlepattern can be issued in several different colorways.

Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity inRenaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry. The elite of society were accustomed

to hanging large tapestries on the walls of their homes, a tradition from the Middle Ages.

These tapestries added color to the room as well as providing an insulating layer betweenthe stone walls and the room, thus retaining heat in the room. However, tapestries were

extremely expensive and so only the very rich could afford them. Less well-off members

of the elite, unable to buy tapestries due either to prices or wars preventing international

trade, turned to wallpaper to brighten up their rooms.

Early wallpaper featured scenes similar to those depicted on tapestries, and large sheets

of the paper were sometimes hung loose on the walls, in the style of tapestries, andsometimes pasted as today. Prints were very often pasted to walls, instead of being

framed and hung, and the largest sizes of prints, which came in several sheets, were

probably mainly intended to be pasted to walls. Some important artists made such pieces,notably Albrecht Drer, who worked on both large picture prints and also ornament prints

intended for wall-hanging. The largest picture print was The Triumphal Arch

commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and completed in 1515. Thismeasured a colossal 3.57 by 2.95 metres, made up of 192 sheets, and was printed in a


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first edition of 700 copies, intended to be hung in palaces and, in particular, town halls,

after hand-coloring.

Very few samples of the earliest repeating pattern wallpapers survive, but there are a

large number of old master prints, often in engraving of repeating or repeatable

decorative patterns. These are called ornament prints and were intended as models forwallpaper makers, among other uses.

England and France were leaders in European wallpaper manufacturing. Among theearliest known samples is one found on a wall from England and is printed on the back of

a London proclamation of 1509. It became very popular in England following Henry

VIII's excommunication from the Catholic Church - English aristocrats had always

imported tapestries from Flanders and Arras, but Henry VIII's split with the CatholicChurch had resulted in a fall in trade with Europe. Without any tapestry manufacturers in

England, English gentry and aristocracy alike turned to wallpaper.

During the Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, the manufacture of wallpaper, seen as afrivolous item by the Puritan government, was halted. Following the Restoration of

Charles II, wealthy people across England began demanding wallpaper again -Cromwell's regime had imposed a boring culture on people, and following his death,

wealthy people began purchasing comfortable domestic items which had been banned

under the Puritan state. In 1712, during the reign of Queen Anne, a wallpaper tax was

introduced which was not abolished until 1836. By the mid-eighteenth century, Britainwas the leading wallpaper manufacturer in Europe, exporting vast quantities to Europe in

addition to selling on the middle-class British market. However this trade was seriously

disrupted in 1755 by the Seven Years War and later the Napoleonic Wars, and by a heavylevel of duty on imports to France.

In 1748 the English ambassador to Paris decorated his salon with blue flock wallpaper,which then became very fashionable there. In the 1760s the French manufacturer Jean-

Baptiste Rveillon hired designers working in silk and tapestry to produce some of the

most subtle and luxurious wallpaper ever made. His sky blue wallpaper with fleurs-de-lyswas used in 1783 on the first balloons by the Montgolfier brothers. The landscape painter

Jean-Baptiste Pillement discovered in 1763 a method to use fast colours. Towards the end

of the century the fashion for scenic wallpaper revived in both England and France,

leading to some enormous panoramas, like the 1804 20 strip wide Panorama, designed bythe artist Jean-Gabriel Charvet for the French Manufacture Joseph Dufour et Cie showing

the Voyages of Captain Cook. One of this famous so called "papier peint" wallpaper is

still in situ in Ham House, Peabody Massachusetts. Beside Joseph Dufour et Cie otherFrench manufacturers of panoramic scenic and trompe l'il wallpapers, Zuber et Cie and

Arthur et Robert exported their product across Europe and North America. Zuber et Cie's

c. 1834 design Views of North America is installed in the Diplomatic Reception Room ofthe White House. Like most of eighteenth century wallpapers, this was designed to be

hung above a dado.


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Hand-blocking wallpapers like these are manufactured by using a centuries old method in

which wallpaper is hand-printed from hand-carved blocks on paper. Hand-blocked

wallpaper depicted scenes include, panoramic views of antique architecture, exoticlandscapes and pastoral subjects, as well as repeating patterns of stylized flowers, people

and animals. The 1797 founded French company Zuber et Cie in Rixheim, France is the

only company in the world which still manufactures woodblocked wallpaper.

In 1785 Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf had invented the first machine for printing

coloured tints on sheets of wallpaper. In 1799 Louis-Nicolas Robert patented a machineto produce continuous lengths of paper, the forerunner of the Fourdrinier machine. This

ability to produce continuous lengths of wallpaper now offered the prospect of novel

designs and nice tints being widely displayed in drawing rooms across Europe.[2]

During the Napoleonic Wars , trade between Europe and Britain evaporated, resulting in

the gradual decline of the wallpaper industry in Britain. However, the end of the war saw

a massive demand in Europe for British goods which had been inaccessible during the

wars, including cheap, colourful wallpaper. The development of steam-powered printingpresses in Britain in 1813 allowed manufacturers to mass-produce wallpaper, reducing its

price and so making it affordable to working-class people. Wallpaper enjoyed a hugeboom in popularity in the nineteenth century, seen as a cheap and very effective way of

brightening up cramped and dark rooms in working-class areas. By the early twentieth

century, wallpaper had established itself as one of the most popular household items

across the Western world. During the late 1980s though, wallpaper began to fall out offashion in lieu of Faux Painting which can be more easily removed by simply re-painting.

Types and sizes

Modern wallcoverings are diverse.[3] Two of the most common factory trimmed sizes of

wallpaper are referred to as "American" and "European" rolled goods. American rolled

goods are 27 inches by 27 feet (8.2 m) in length. European rolled goods are 21.5 incheswide by 33 feet (10 m) in length. Approx. 60 square feet (5.6 m2). Most wallpaper

borders are sold by linear foot and with a wide range of widths therefore square footage is

not applicable. Although some may require trimming.

The most common wall covering for residential use and generally the most economical is

prepasted vinyl coated paper, commonly called "strippable" which can be misleading.

Cloth backed vinyl is fairly common and durable. Lighter vinyls are easier to handle andhang. Paper backed vinyls are generally more expensive, significantly more difficult to

hang, and can be found in wider untrimmed widths. Foil wallpaper generally has paper

backing and can (exceptionally) be up to 36 inches wide, and be very difficult to handleand hang. Textile wallpapers include silks, linens, grass cloths, strings, rattan, and actual

impressed leaves. There are acoustical wall carpets to reduce sound. Customized

wallcoverings are available at high prices and most often have minimum roll orders.

Solid vinyl with a cloth backing is the most common commercial wallcovering and

comes from the factory as untrimmed at 54 inches approximately, to be overlapped and


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double cut by the installer. This same type can be pre-trimmed at the factory to 27 inches

approximately.

Custom Wallpaper Printing

New digital inkjet printing technologies using ultraviolet (UV) cured inks are being usedfor custom wallpaper production. Very small runs can be made, even a single wall.

Photographs or digital art are output onto blank wallpaper material. Typical installations

are corporate lobbies, restaurants, athletic facilities, and home interiors.[4] This gives adesigner the ability to give a space the exact look and feel desired.

Use

Like paint, wallpaper requires proper surface preparation before application.Additionally, wallpaper is not suitable for all areas. For example, bathroom wallpaper

may deteriorate rapidly due to excessive steam. Proper preparation includes the repair of

any defects in the drywall or plaster and the removal of loose material or old adhesives.

Accurate room measurements (length, width, and height) along with number of windowand door openings is essential for ordering wallpaper. Large drops, or repeats, in a pattern

can be cut and hung more economically by working from alternating rolls of paper. Paperis sold (with very few exceptions) in double rolls.

Wallpaper adhesives

Main article: Wallpaper adhesive

Most wallpaper adhesive is starch or methylcellulose based.

Removal

Water

The simplest removal option is to brush the paper with water. Water soaks through the

paper and saturates the glue, allowing the paper to be peeled off.

This does not work well with non-peel able vinyl, as vinyl is not porous. Nevertheless it

is still effective on many modern papers.

A mixture of 3:1 or 1:1 Water and White Vinegar is effective at dissolving glues. If the

wallpaper is scored or sanded with a 20 grit floor sanding pad to scratch the surface

solution uptake will be more effective.Chemical wallpaper stripper

Chemical wallpaper stripper can be purchased at most paint or home improvement stores.It is mixed with warm water or a mixture of warm water and vinegar, and then sprayed

onto wall surfaces. Several applications may be required to saturate the existing

wallpaper. Perforation can aid in the absorption of the mixture and lead to faster removal.After the mixture has dissolved the wallpaper paste, the wallpaper can be removed easily

by pulling at the edges and with the aid of a putty or drywall knife.

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Another method of removal is to apply steam to wallpaper in order to dissolve the

wallpaper paste. A wallpaper steamer consists of a reservoir of water, an electric heating

element, and a hose to direct the steam at the wallpaper. The steam dissolves thewallpaper paste, allowing the wallpaper to be peeled off. However, care must be taken to

prevent damage to the drywall underneath. Sometimes steaming can lead to the

crumbling of underlying drywall or plaster, leaving an uneven surface to be repaired.

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