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The following is an extract from my Regency romantic comedy, WINTERBOURNE'S FOLLY. Having rented a charming house in Fitzharding Street for the London Season, this is a description of Miss Felcia deVere's bedroom
This room was papered in a sumptuous Chinese design of blue peacocks on a yellow ground and, facing east, it caught the early morning sun. It was a daily delight to Miss Felicia to wake into a room filled, as she put it, with the most vibrant sunshine, and she found the paper so exceedingly charming that she had enquired of the land agent as to where the same might be purchased, with a view to having it in a room in her new married home, wherever that might be.
This stunning wallpaper is from a company called Bobbi Beck and I'm sure that Miss Felcia would have loved it. But how was it that wallpaper became such a fashion in Regency times? And was it really what we know, nowardays, as 'Regency stripe' - which always seems to come in a selection of really dull colours?
For an article about the history of Chinese hand-painted wallpaper, click here (Leads to an article with illustrations on my webiste)#https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/chinese-wallpapers-and-the-chinoiserie-style#:~:text=The%20first%20Chinese%20wallpapers%20appeared,lasted%20more%20than%20a%20century.
For an article about the history of Chinese hand-painted wallpaper, click here (Leads to an article with illustrations on my webiste)# https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/chinese-wallpapers-and-the-chinoiserie-style#:~:text=The%20first%20Chinese%20wallpapers%20appeared,lasted%20more%20than%20a%20century.