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Chinese started using textiles for wallpaper.
hinese court official Ts'ai Lun, invented papermaking from textile waste, i.e. from rags. This was the birth of paper as we know it today. Some time in the 8th century, several Chinese prisoners with papermaking skills worked under Arabs, who in turn, spread the knowledge of papermaking throughout the Middle East. By the 10th century, Arabians were substituting linen fibers for wood and bamboo, creating a finer sheet of paper. Paper now reached a much higher quality level. -
Jan 1, 1418
Europeans started printing religious images.
In the 12th century the Europeans learnt the paper making skill. They decided to make religious prints, the earliest known in 1418 being a representation of the virgin mary which now resides in the Royal Library at Brussels. Historians believe that this printing method was used a lot earlier in the 5th century by the Chinese. -
Jan 1, 1481
Jean Bourdichon painted 50 rolls of wallpaper for King Louis XI
He painted angels on a blue background. Because the king moved frequently from castle to castle, it was necessary for it to be portable. Other wealthy Europeans commissioned artists to paint wallpaper. -
Paperhangers
A guild of paperhangers was first established in France in 1599. -
Wallpaper Came to America
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Louis XVI issued a decree
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Lithography was invented.
lithography was invented by Alois Senefelder in Solnhofen, Germany. -
The English invented a four color surface printing machine.
English invented a four color surface printing machine with designs hand-cut on cylinders that could print 400 rolls a day. It was invented by the Charles Harold Potter of the calico printing firm Potters & Ross of Darwen in Lancashire, England. -
EIght color printing machine was invented.
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Twenty color printing machine was invented.
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Intaglio was invented.
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Ferdinand Sichel developed the first ready-to-use wallpaper paste.
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flexographic printing is invented in England.
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Silkscreens first painted.
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National Guild of Professional Paperhangers was established in the United States.
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Technology makes wallpaper a lot more advanced.
Of course, one should no longer talk about wallpaper. Now it's wallcoverings, for technology has stepped in and created products that incorporate miracle compounds that make them washable, long lasting, pre-pasted, and yet so true to the best of history's worldly arts. So, companies can reproduce any style of any period. And unlike the costly fresco paintings, tapestries and hand-painted papers of the past, today's wallcoverings are very affordable.