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Special thank you to Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PEWSV #victorianpaperedwall #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.

Asian themes were favored as sitting rooms. Moorish and Turkish décor, on the other hand, often transformed a corner nook, parlor, or smoking room. Certainly, a room set such as this one was intended to transport its homeowner into a fantastical realm. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.

The Victorians’ intense fascination with the exotic stemmed from popular novels, illustrated travelogues, exhibitions, and increasing travel by steamship. Entire rooms might be fashioned in Moorish or Japanese-inspired designs. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.

Special thank you to Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper #wallpapers This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.

International exhibitions of Islamic and other non-Western arts helped fuel the public’s desire for these styles, as did the collections of early museums, such as the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.

The success of "L’Ornement Polychrome" prompted a second series in 1885. The lavish imagery presented in both sets drew from cultures around the world and featured a variety of mediums, including woodwork, metalwork, architecture, textiles, and painting. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.

The individual patterns of this Persian ceiling paper set were drawn and adapted from examples of the Persian and Indo-Persian patterns depicted in Albert Racinet’s compendium "L’Ornement Polychrome," published in installments between 1869 and 1873. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.

Special thank you to Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.

A complex pattern for an average size Victorian room can require over one thousand individual impressions! #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.

St. James, which has seventeen colors, requires seventeen different prints with seventeen separate screens, each of which must perfectly align with the next one. Printing tables are ninety feet long and hold six rolls of wallpaper. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.

Paint is forced through the stencil using a plastic-bladed squeegee. The printer must skip every other repeat to prevent the silkscreen frame from falling in wet ink. Each screen lays down one color at a time. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.

Silkscreens require a coating of photo-sensitive emulsion, essentially like a large piece of film. The screen & artwork are sandwiched in a large vacuum frame & exposed to light. Areas exposed to the light become impervious; the other areas are washed away. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.