Decor In Wool

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 3

Decor In Wool

Wool on the beds, on the furniture, the walls and the ceilings was seen in an unusual show house at the Royal Show at Kenilworth recently.

The house was the combined work of a well-known firm of British builders, a homemakers’ magazine, “House and Garden,” and the International Wool Secretariat

Fifty firms producing wool goods gave their co-operation to Olive Sullivan, the magagine’s decoration editor, to produce the wool interiors. The I.W.S. supervised the demonstration of wool’s potentialities and versatility in interior decoration.

Wool “wallpaper” was the most unexpected innovation. It ranged from fine felts to provide a high-fashion wall surface in the main bedroom —an intense yellow ochre was the chosen colour—to fine printed wools in other rooms of the house.

The “wallpaper” was attached by small, almost invisible pins. The material was judged to be naturally more resistant to dirt and staining than normal paper, but the pins also enabled it to be removed for washing. “House And Garden” commented: “This house is one of the most unusual and enterprising furnishing and decorating ventures in recent years. It will undoubtedly provide dozens of decorative ideas for young people about to set up home and spark off redecorating ideas for j hundreds of house-proud visitors.”

The photograph shows the main bedroom in gold and white. It has a gold carpet with a brass and white lacquer, four-poster bed, with hangings and curtain linings in printed wool. The white bed cover is hand-crocheted in double crepe wool.