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Wallpaper adhesive or wallpaper paste is a specific adhesive, based on modified starch, methylcellulose, or clay [1] which is used to fix wallpaper to walls. [ 2 ] Wallpaper pastes have a typical shear thinning viscosity and a high wet adhesive tack.
The technique was introduced to the US by Gustav Stickley in 1901 [8] and a manufacturing technique was perfected in the mission style furniture line of the Stickley family business. [9] Stickley also described a method of fuming the wooden architecture of an entire room by placing bowls of ammonia in the room and sealing it.
Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
At this time, world-renowned cabinet and furniture makers such as Thomas Chippendale and Duncan Phyfe began to use adhesives to hold their products together. [10] In 1690, the first commercial glue plant was established in The Netherlands. This plant produced glues from animal hides. [16] In 1750, the first British glue patent was issued for ...
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These older techniques were already used to produce articles such as furniture, frames for paintings, and even tooled leather book covers. Known as Florentine style crafts, these items are now highly collectible antiques. Florentine artisans made use of decoupage by adding it to the space within a carved gilt frame, or by adding the decoupage ...
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