Description

This pattern dates from the period when several major shifts were underway in wallpaper design and manufacture. First, it shows the influence of Owen Jones and Augustus Pugin, English designers who were fascinated by ancient and exotic ornament. They were determined to replace the French fashion for overtly three dimensional wallpapers with those that treated the walls in what they felt was a more honest manner, as a flat plane.

In the same time period, the development of machine printing also altered both the design and print quality of wallpaper, not usually for the better. However, the original document of Adelphi’s Persian Volute is an excellent example of a roller printed pattern, surprisingly free of the flaws of early mechanized products. With its straightforward areas of color we have been able to successfully reproduce it with the block printing method.

Imperial Measurements: Repeat 12 ½ inches, width 19 ¾ inches, length 11 yards, straight match.

Metric Measurements: 32 cm, 50 cm, 10 m.