Editorial 5

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

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NEW DISCOVERIES

An Unexpected Discovery 6

Gail Falkingham & Rachel Greenwood

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Gawthorpe Hall’s Walter Crane Investigation 8

Rachel Pilling

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FOCUS ON COLLECTIONS

A New Museum for Wallpapers in Kassel 11

Astrid Wegener

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The Castle Howard Wallpaper Collection 14

Eleanor Brooke-Peat

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On Arthur & Robert’s masterpiece Ovid’s 21

Metamorphoses: a restoration, exhibition and publication project by the Swiss National Museum Helen Bieri Thomson

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FEATURES

Relieving Stress in Victorian England: the Design 33

Reform Movement pattern-making strategy

Corinne Hoge

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House Decorators of Norfolk 39

Dianne Lawrence

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Pomar Flores: Mallorca’s wallpaper collection 46

Josep Pomar

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Cheap, Yet Elegant and Tasteful Paperhangings: 53

children employed in paper-staining in the mid-19th century

Mike Malley

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Hilton, Potter & Bros.: a new perspective on the early 56

development of wallpaper printing by machine

Mike Malley

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: drawing 59

parallels with the Dykes decorating family

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

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NEW LEASE OF LIFE

Restoring Wallpaper at Dundurn National Historic 65

Site, Canada: a tale of two wallpapers and a border that separated them

Carolyn Samko

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Chinese Export Papers at Chatsworth 68

Sash Giles

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REVIEWS: BOOKS

De Gournay Hand-Painted Interiors 75

by Claud Cecil Gurney

Phillippa Mapes

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William Morris edited by Anna Mason 75

David Skinner

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The V&A Source Book of Pattern & Ornament 77

by Amelia Calver

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

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Wallpaper, a History of Style and Trends 78

by Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz

Eleanor Brooke-Peat

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REVIEWS: EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

White Psyche at the Whitworth, Manchester 79

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

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Using wallpaper to get through lockdown: the story 81

of a wallpaper diary

Lucy Birkinshaw

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SNIPPETS AND QUERIES

The Banana Wallpaper at Chatsworth 87

Sash Giles

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The scenic Les Combat des Grecs exhibited and 88

explained in Trieste

Bernard Jacqué

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The Merryl Huxtable Bursary Prize 2021: 89

Auchindrain Township

Rachel Thomas

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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Museum of the Home 91

Lucy Ellis

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APPRECIATION

Geert Wisse 1965–2021 94

Bernard Jacqué

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APPRECIATION

Christine Woods 1946–2022 95

Bernard Jacqué