En tapet med sjel!
Mitt nye prosjekt er jo som sagt (gårsdagens blogginnlegg) å redesigne en skipskiste om til et skipskiste-skap, og det jeg mangler er en tapet. Vi prøver å bevare noe av husets sjel fra 1800-tallet, og jeg ble derfor veldig glad (selv om lommeboken nok griner) da jeg fant nettsiden til Little Green. Klikk deg inn på "wallpaper", og du har mengder av tapeter å sikle over.. De eldste tapene er fra 1700-tallet og alle tapetene fra "London wallpapers" er reproduksjoner av tapeter funnet i gamle hus i og omkring London. Hvilken skattekiste å kunne finne lag på lag med gamle tapeter.. Det har alltid vært en drøm å kjøpe et gammelt hus, for så å oppdage vegger med gamle tapeter, loft med gamle møbler, etterlatte boder fulle av skatter. Det er ikke lektor i Engelsk jeg skulle blitt, det er "tapet-arkeolog"!
Her er noen av tapetene fra "London" kolleksjonen deres;
ALBERMARLE STREET, ca. 1760
Reminiscent of Spitalfields silks, this paper, found in Albemarle Street, off Piccadilly, had an enormous pattern repeat of 6ft. Originally produced in a dark blue flock on a light ground, it was unusual to find so bold and expensive a paper used as here, in a low ceilinged, second floor bedroom. Such a grand paper would have been designed to have been on show - more often in a downstairs reception room where guests would be entertained.
BAYHAM ABBEY, ca. 1880
Whilst the original fragment was discovered at Bayham Abbey, on the Sussex-Kent border, the paper is likely to have been produced in London. On a red ground, reminiscent of gothic style, the original paper was made from cellulose wood pulp and machine-printed.
BROADWICK ST., ca.1775
Found in a row of elegant early-18th Century houses in Broadwick Street, Soho, this design is remarkable in that it was based on a botanically accurate reproduction of a plant, Clusia Rosea, first recorded in a famous book the Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Robert Catesby in 1743.
GREAT ORMOND STREET, ca.1890
A colourful parrot motif, closely based on one of a multi-layered group of papers removed from the ground floor rear closet of a very early-18th Century terrace house opposite the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. This design was subsequently machine-made on cellulose paper in the late 19th Century.
Man kan også sjekke ut "Oriental Papers".
Eller "50s Line Papers";
Her er noen av tapetene fra "London" kolleksjonen deres;
Reminiscent of Spitalfields silks, this paper, found in Albemarle Street, off Piccadilly, had an enormous pattern repeat of 6ft. Originally produced in a dark blue flock on a light ground, it was unusual to find so bold and expensive a paper used as here, in a low ceilinged, second floor bedroom. Such a grand paper would have been designed to have been on show - more often in a downstairs reception room where guests would be entertained.
BAYHAM ABBEY, ca. 1880
Whilst the original fragment was discovered at Bayham Abbey, on the Sussex-Kent border, the paper is likely to have been produced in London. On a red ground, reminiscent of gothic style, the original paper was made from cellulose wood pulp and machine-printed.
BROADWICK ST., ca.1775Found in a row of elegant early-18th Century houses in Broadwick Street, Soho, this design is remarkable in that it was based on a botanically accurate reproduction of a plant, Clusia Rosea, first recorded in a famous book the Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Robert Catesby in 1743.
GREAT ORMOND STREET, ca.1890A colourful parrot motif, closely based on one of a multi-layered group of papers removed from the ground floor rear closet of a very early-18th Century terrace house opposite the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. This design was subsequently machine-made on cellulose paper in the late 19th Century.
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Man kan også sjekke ut "Oriental Papers".
Eller "50s Line Papers";
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