Wallpaper from the 1690s found in a house on Fournier Street in East Londona living scrapbook
Wallpaper from the 1690s found in a house on Fournier Street in East London
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Wallpaper from the 1690s found in a house on Fournier Street in East London
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6 comments:
Hello Sue, it's Wednesday! And just before I open my sketchbook and get started on making some Valentines, I wanted to tell you that I also really love the Spitalfields blog. The variety of the posts is astonishing.
Must sign off quickly now, and get the pencils, paints, brushes out.
xo
I love the scrap of wallpaper. Have you seen this website?: http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/ It was created by a visiting professor at the Uni where I work and records scraps of fabric which were left with babies at the Coram Fields foundling hospital so that if the mothers came back to claim children years later they could match up the fabric with the other half that they had kept and thus validate their claim. It's beautiful and fascinating. Sorry for such a long comment.
I have scraps of wallpaper from my house - only built in the mid 20's but still fascinating to look at and wonder at what it has witnessed...
I plan to make some kind of 'art' from them hopefully before I die.
When we moved the radiators in our victorian house we found a treasure of wallpapers - it was like travelling through time looking at the fashions of the different eras. I love that feeling of being part of something continuous. Maybe one day scraps of our lives will be found and mulled over. I find that somehow peaceful.
had no idea that wallpaper of that kind existed so far back. I thought it was a much newer invention, extraordinary!
What a wonderful blog! Spitalfields has fascinated me ever since I saw a TV programme about it.
And the wallpaper is amazing! I love the wild roses one.
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