Wall paper, its origin, development and manufacture (1922)
Ward, George Whiteley · London, New York [etc.] Pitman · leaf 49
as dueto nothing beyond the undoubted fact that oldmethods, like old soldiers, take an unconscionable timea-dying. Nevertheless, the wheels of the Car of Progress cannotbe checked for ever, and it eventually became mani-fest that the machine-made wall paper had come tostay. It need hardly be said… … THE PRODUCTION OF A MODERN WALL COVERING 37 Yet withal so far are the block printed papersfrom being obsolete and done for, even now, that manu-facturers themselves shall admit that the best kind ofhand-made wall covering may still hold its own againstthe other, if price be reckoned of no account.…
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