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wallpaper
wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made other papers in small designs. O... Read more
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen , 1902-71, Danish architect and designer. Attentive to detail, Jacobsen suited his buildings to the surrounding landscape. He chiefly designed private housing, particularly in Søholm. The Bellevue seaside resort (1930-35) and Copenhagen's Jespersen (1955) and Scandinavian Airlin... Read more
Cavan
Cavan , county (1991 pop. 52,796), 730 sq mi (1,891 sq km), N Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Cavan . The county is a hilly region of lakes (Lough Oughter chief among them) and bogs, and the climate is extremely damp and cool. Most of the soil is clay. The Erne is the principal river, and t... Read more
casein
casein , well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk. Casein is a remarkably efficient nutrient, supplying not only essential amino acids, but also some carbohydrates and the inorganic elements calcium and phosphorus.... Read more
dextrin
dextrin any one of a number of carbohydrates having the same general formula as starch but a smaller and less complex molecule. They are polysaccharides and are produced as intermediate products in the hydrolysis of starch by heat, by acids, and by enzymes. Their nature and their chemical behav... Read more
silverfish
silverfish common name for primitive, wingless insects of the family Lepismatidae. The silverfish, which has two long antennae and three long tail bristles, is named for its covering of tiny, silvery scales. It develops directly in six or more molts into an adult about 1/2 in. (1.27 cm) long.... Read more
chinoiserie
chinoiserie , decorative work produced under the influence of Chinese art, applied particularly to the more fanciful and extravagant manifestations. Intimations of Eastern art reached Europe in the Middle Ages in the porcelains brought by returning travelers. Eastern trade was maintained during the ... Read more
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, British designer, pioneer of modern industrial design, b. Scotland, He moved (1847) to London, where he studied (1847-54) at the Government School of Design. He began his career as a botanist, teaching and writing several books. Dresser contributed floral designs to O... Read more
Charles Percier
Charles Percier , 1764-1838, French architect. He won (1786) the Grand Prix de Rome, and in 1794 he became associated with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine . Napoleon appointed them as government architects, and this post lasted until the emperor's fall. In the development of the Empi... Read more
William Morris
William Morris 1834-96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer. He has long been considered one of the great Victorians and has been called the greatest English designer of the 19th cent. While at Oxford, Morris, along with his lifelong friend Edward Burne-Jon... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to ""wallpaper""

SIC 5231 Paint, Glass, and Wallpaper Stores
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 5231PAINT, GLASS, AND WALLPAPER STORES This industry consists of...selling primarily paint, glass, and wallpaper, or any combination of these lines...Materials Dealers) 444120 (Paint and Wallpaper Stores) Industry Snapshot In 2000...
wallpaper
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th...or silk was probably first adapted to wallpaper c.1620 in France, but by the 18th...Papillon established in 1688 the first large wallpaper factory, where he made matching designs...
SIC 5198 Paint, Varnishes, and Supplies: Wholesale Distribution
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...distribute wholesale paints, varnishes, wallpaper, and supplies. Retail stores selling...classified in SIC 5231: Paint, Glass, and Wallpaper Stores. According to the Standard Industrial...Supplies Wholesalers) 444120 (Paint and Wallpaper Stores) The paint, varnish and supplies...
William Morris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and crafts ). He made carvings, stained glass, tapestries, carpets, wallpaper, chintzes, and furniture. Today he is especially known for his fabric and wallpaper designs, gracefully elaborate all-over patterns usually based on floral...
Arsenicum Album
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...Arsenic is indestructible, even by fire, and remains in bone ash after cremation. It has been used to create pigmentation for wallpaper, carpet, and paints. Arsenic has also been used to produce medicines and pesticides. Arsenic was used as a remedy for...
Charles Burchfield
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Back home, he continued to paint on weekends and during lunch hours. He married, moved to Buffalo, NY, to work as a wallpaper designer, and persisted as a part-time painter until 1929. He raised five children in the Buffalo suburb of Gardenville...
Diana, Princess of Wales
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...until she was eight years old, when her parents went through a bitter divorce, and her mother ran off with the heir to a wallpaper fortune. Her father eventually won the custody battle over their son and three daughters. Diana, who remained close to...
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...adequate, and the Joyners knew real desperation. Moore in Sports Illustrated wrote: "Their house was little more than wallpaper and sticks, with four tiny bedrooms. During the winters, when the hot-water pipes would freeze, they had to heat water...
SIC 1799 Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...include bathtub refinishing, gasoline pump installation, grave excavation, swimming pool construction, post hole digging, wallpaper stripping, mobile home setup, house moving, fire escape installation, bowling alley construction, artificial turf installation...
Darwen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Darwen , town (1991 pop. 30,833), Lancashire, NW England. Engineering and the manufacture of wallpaper, paint, and plastics are the major industries. The importance of textile production in Darwen has declined.

Dictionary entries related to ""wallpaper""

wallpaper
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing wallpaper In a graphical user interface (GUI), the pattern on those parts of the screen outside the desktop . The wallpaper can be chosen from those supplied with the GUI or can be provided by the users. Small repeated patterns or screen-filling...
Bobillier, Étienne
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...who died when É tienne was seven years old. He and his brother Marie Andr é were raised by their mother, a wallpaper merchant. É tienne attended the local secondary school and seemed inclined toward literary studies, in which he...
snip
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...dandelion on the grass. ∎  a small piece of something that has been cut off: the collage consists of snips of wallpaper. 2. inf. a small or insignificant person: imagine that little snip telling me I was wrong! 3. ( snips ) hand shears...
messy
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...est ) 1. untidy or dirty: his messy hair. ∎  generating or involving mess or untidiness: stripping wallpaper can be a messy job. 2. (of a situation) confused and difficult to deal with: a messy divorce. DERIVATIVES: mess...
hanger
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...hang·er / ˈha ng ər / • n. 1. [in comb. ] a person who hangs something: a wallpaper hanger. 2. (also coat hanger ) a shaped piece of wood, plastic, or metal with a hook at the top, from which clothes...
buttermilk
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x2022; n. the slightly sour liquid left after butter has been churned, used in baking or consumed as a drink. ∎  a pale yellow color (used esp. to describe paint or wallpaper): [as adj. ] buttermilk paintwork.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...including sociology, literature, political science, economics, and women's studies. Her best-known volume is The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), written after her nervous breakdown in 1885. It can be taken as a semi-autobiographical record of psychiatric...
Siegfried Idyll
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...domestic name for Siegfried, the ‘orange sunrise’ referred to memory of how the sunrise lit up the orange wallpaper on the morning of his birth. The Idyll was never intended for public perf., but financial hardship compelled Wagner to...
Gober, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...wearing a wedding dress; a paper bag filled with doughnuts, placed on a pedestal; a baby's cot with slanting sides; wallpaper showing a pattern of male and female sexual organs; a repetitive design in which a sleeping man is paired with a lynch...
Bawden, Edward
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Bawden, Edward (1903–1989). British water-colour painter, illustrator, and designer of posters, wallpaper, tapestries, and theatre decor, born at Braintree, Essex. From 1919 to 1922 Bawden studied at Cambridge School of...

Thesaurus entries related to ""wallpaper""

paper
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English paper • verb  paper the walls synonyms : wallpaper, line, hang wallpaper on, decorate. phrase: paper over   paper over the firm's difficulties synonyms : hide, conceal, draw a veil over, disguise, camouflage, cover up, gloss over, whitewash.
red
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English red • adjective   1. red dresses/wallpaper/flowers synonyms : reddish, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, cherry, ruby, cardinal, carmine, ruby-colored, maroon, wine...
decorate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...enhance, grace, prettify; festoon, garland, bedeck.   2. he started to decorate his home synonyms : paint, wallpaper, paper; refurbish, furbish, renovate, redecorate; informal do up, spruce up, do over, fix up, give something a facelift...
snip
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...off. • noun   1. make snips along the edge synonyms : cut, slit, nick, notch, incision.   2. snips of wallpaper synonyms : scrap, snippet, cutting, shred, remnant, fragment, sliver, bit, piece.
paste
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...noun   1. blend the ingredients to a paste synonyms : purée, pulp, mush, mash, blend.   2. wallpaper paste synonyms : adhesive, glue, gum, fixative, mucilage. • verb  a notice was pasted on the door...
loud
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...vociferous, clamorous, insistent, vehement, emphatic, urgent, importunate, demanding.   5. loud colors/wallpaper synonyms : garish, gaudy, flashy, bold, flamboyant, lurid, glaring, showy, obtrusive, vulgar, tawdry, tasteless...
pattern
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus pattern • noun   1. the pattern on the wallpaper synonyms : design, decoration, motif, marking, ornament, ornamentation. See table.   2. the patterns of ant behavior...
peel
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...to peel the veneer synonyms : trim (off), peel off, pare, strip (off), shave (off), remove.   3. the wallpaper was peeling synonyms : flake (off), peel off, come off in layers/strips. • noun  orange peel synonyms...
jarring
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus jarring • adjective  the striped wallpaper and plaid curtains make a jarring combination | the portrait of his dead children was a jarring reminder of his drunken driving...
tinge
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English tinge • noun   1. a tinge of silver in the wallpaper synonyms : color, tint, shade, tone, tincture, cast, dye, stain, wash.   2. a tinge of sadness in her attitude...

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Wallpaper: paste with taste
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 1/27/2002; 700+ words ; Linda Holmes It appears that wallpaper has fallen out of favor in recent...many of the top selling patterns in wallpaper today, tend to look somewhat like...out there. Personally, I love wallpaper and I predict wallpaper will be...
Paper tiger ; Wallpaper, that fearsome stuff of yore, is the comeback kid in home decorating thanks to innovations that make it easier to adhere, clean and strip.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 5/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Maine) 05-22-2005 Paper tiger ; Wallpaper, that fearsome stuff of yore, is...Maine Life Memo: WHAT'S NEW IN WALLPAPER? FOR THE PAST decade or so, the message most of us have heard about wallpaper is: "Don't do it." BUT NOW...
Wallpaper hanger has gotten hang of job
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/5/2005; ; 700+ words ; Gary Hofmeister knows things about wallpaper. In 25 years of cutting it, gluing...You might think you can put up your own wallpaper. And you can. But not like Hofmeister...to see the delicately layered period wallpaper on the ceiling. Here's what your eyes...
When Wallpaper Lies Under the Paint
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/25/2005; ; 700+ words ; Q How should I deal with wallpaper that's been painted over? A Painting over wallpaper is one of those quick fixes that probably seemed...aftermath. Usually, the paint sticks to the wallpaper just fine, but the seams telescope through...
Easy-to-install wallpaper borders enliven any room
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/9/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION This tropical wallpaper border was easy to install. It requires minimal wallpaper-hanging skill to achieve professional...just painting some rooms and adding a wallpaper border for extra flare. Is this a good...
WONDERFUL WALLPAPER HOMEOWNERS REDISCOVER WALL COVERINGS IN ALL COLORS AND TEXTURES.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 7/23/2005; 700+ words ; Byline: Suzanne Sproul Staff Writer Wallpaper is no wallflower anymore. The one...comeback. With new designs and technology, wallpaper is allowing homeowners to create effects...to match. Lou Marsten, owner of the Wallpaper Bin in Northridge, has seen wallpaper...
HOLLYWOOD GIVES WALLPAPER A NEW ROLE.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/16/2002; 700+ words ; ...mastered the art of sponge painting, wallpaper makes a comeback. No kidding. Claret...Wallcoverings, which supplies authentic wallpaper designs for numerous Hollywood projects...toile,'' says Lucy Tralla, manager of Wallpaper Bin, a small chain of stores across...
Custom wallpaper: Family photos, original patterns - use digital printing to create it
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Personalized wallpaper Here are a few ways people use or intend to use customized wallpaper in their homes: s A band is going to have...discovered his grandmothers old but out-of-print wallpaper and wants to reprint it for his home. * A...
Welcome back, wallpaper!
Newspaper article from: Isthmus; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...instead of take it down Whenever I hear wallpaper mentioned, the conversation is usually...only improve the room. But after the wallpaper is down, what's your next move: Paint? Or another pattern of wallpaper? Who would put up wallpaper again...
American Blinds, Wallpaper and More Offers Advice on Spring Decorating Tips and Trends.
News Wire article from: PRWeb; 4/15/2009; 700+ words ; ...decorating space. American Blinds, Wallpaper and More offers advice on spring decorating...Mediterranean and Parisian styles. Shop our wallpaper, borders and fabulous room murals...Shades. Check out the eco-friendly wallpaper (http://www.americanblinds.com...