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Photo Essay: The ad for the Blew Paper Warehouse is pretty famous. It gives extensive information about how to hang wallpaper c. 1700. Not only that but the "before & after" is explicit. Stay tuned and hang on til the end....there is a pay-off../1
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In recent years a chest of drawers at Dryham Park was found to have a very similar paper used as lining for the drawers../6..
The paper is hand made with mostly untrimmed deckle edges, block-printed and with stencilled colours. Central creases remain from the original fold from the drying process when the sheets were hung over a line../7..
This joined chest of drawers is thought to be made in England using British oak, circa 1690../8..
Details of the borders: Blew Paper Warehouse trade card (left); the Dyrham paper (middle); a border found at Manor Farm (right). Manor Farm is another property of the National Trust. These photos are from Andrew Bush and James Weedon, writing in a National Trust magazine../9..
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