WALL PAPERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19531, 14 July 1925, Page 5

WALL PAPERS.

The liking for plain wallpapers appears to bo on the wane, if one excepts those which simulate, the appearance of a woven fabric, which as canvas, frieze, linen, or rush matting (observes the’ Manchester Guardian). Manufacturers, quick to catch an indication of fashion’s turning tide, arc now appealing to the lover of colour with an all-over design of rich-hned fruit, or a vista of massed liowers, or a summer woodland scene. One such design treats of peacocks and tulip trees against a background of ivory; another shows ripe wall-fruit in soft rich colours laid on with a stippled effect like that of a modern oil-colour; while a scene of Oriental characteristics, with pagodas, bridges, and willow-pattern ladies, appears in a third. The idea that the children’s rooms should have their walls colour-washed is surrendering to the discovery that little folk prefer a more varied wall-covering. For their delight is offered a paper bearing on a raised white ground pretty silhouetted groups, in black, of children dancing, feeding pets, or watering flowers. The varnishing papers imitating tiles, once so invariable in bathrooms are nowadays felt to bo unnecessarily chilly in effect, and their use is often superseded by an oil-painted paper in some fresh and pleasing colour, the surface of this specially treated paper being not only scrubbable, but absolutely impervious to steam.