![]() ![]() Small sheets either carried a repeating image, or several blocks produced a pattern spread across many sheets. By the sixteenth century, however, more expensive wallcoverings embodying imagery taken from tapestries hung in the homes of nobility, became popular with the middle class. Within the next few centuries, papers were hand block-printed, but only remained popular with the poor. ![]() The earliest wallpapers were used in Europe as early as the thirteenth century and were painted with images of popular religious icons and displayed within the homes of the devout and the poor. Other well-heeled Europeans commissioned artists to paint paper for their walls. Jean Bourdichon was commissioned to paint several rolls of paper with angels on a blue background for Louis XI of France in 1481 to provide a feeling of consistency of surroundings for him as he moved from castle to castle. This type of printing method may have also been used by the Chinese as early as the 5th century. The earliest European pictorial block prints were religious souvenirs, the oldest being a representation of the Virgin dated 1418 now in the Royal Library at Brussels. All of this enabled various individuals to experiment with printing onto this fairly even textured paper. Things progressed slowly but by the 10th century, linen fibres were being used instead of wood or bamboo to create a finer paper. In the 8th century, a group of Chinese prisoners with papermaking skills who worked under some Arabs taught them their skills and they in turn spread the knowledge of papermaking throughout the Middle East. ![]() and the Chinese were thought to have glued rice paper onto their walls as early as 200BC. Egyptian papyrus was the earliest known paper invented around 4000 B.C.
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