July 1, 1864.] THE TECHNOLOGIST. 



THE TECHNOLOGIST. 



MANUFACTURE OF PAPER-HANGINGS. 



Paper-hanging, or, as the French call it, " tapestry on paper," is an 

 art which is now matured into system, and its products have become of 

 universal use. Its purpose is to gratify the taste by decorating the 

 interior walls of a dwelling, and this, in the better class ol houses, in 

 consistency with the uses of each apartment and with the general style 

 of architecture represented within a building. The colour-tone, the 

 brilliancy, and particular pattern of the paper-hanging adopted in any 

 case has, besides, an intimate relation to the household furniture with 

 which an apartment should be equipped. House furnishing in this view 

 is a work of art, and demands judgment and a cultivated taste for the 

 work. 



Paper-hangings used, in the earlier period of their manufacture, to 

 be grouped into two classes : — 1. Those which were really painted, and 

 which were designed in France, under the title of papier peints, with 

 brilliant flowers and figures ; and, 2. Those in which designs were 

 formed by foreign matters applied to the paper, under the name of 

 papier tontisse. This classification has now fallen to be inaccurate under 

 the first head, nor is either distinction sufficiently descriptive of the 

 method or materials of manufacture, or comprehensive of the great 

 variety of the products which we now possess. The more expensive 

 papers are block-printed ; the cheaper sorts are cylinder or machine- 

 printed. Under block printing come the more ornate and elaborate 

 designs, in the form of stamped golds, bronzed golds or brocade papers, 

 dining-room damasks in flock and gold, and the higher class of bedroom 

 papers. Under machine printing fall grained or damask papers, grey or 

 white, chintz papers, pulps, &c. The final operations of satining and 

 embossing papers, carried on here also, create characters and distinctions 

 of their own in the classes of papers. It, besides, frequently happens 

 that the operations of block-printing follow those of the cylinder in 

 filling in the colour and completing the design. 



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