Did you know that wallpapers were use as early as the 16th century? [This came to my knowledge through very beautiful and interesting little Jexhibltion of wallpapers mostly French and dating back 200 years, which has been opened in Bruton Street. The 10th century wallpapers fare in Christ's College, Cambridge. But some of the 17th century are on view, Including some fragments found a house in Park Lane when it was. being pulled down: a workman was Jearrying them off to be burnt when Jsome one who knew about such things luckily saved them.
China was at one time a great source of wallpapers which were
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.