THE SUN Classified Advts.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 12

THE SUN Classified Advts.

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and the other without wallpaper—one would be converted to the views he was expressing. Taste Necessary Taste must, of course, be exercised, just the same as in choosing any other article; therefore seek the product of the manufacturers who have established a reputation for making correct styles and producing goods suitable to present needs. Continuing, Mr. Burn said that ever since man came upon the earth he had striven to make his home attractive by the decoration of the walls, whether he occupied a cave, a tent, or a building of greater pretensions. He made carvings on the walls of his caves, he embellished the tent walls with drawings, though these drawings were crude. He hung the walls of his tuit with woven fabrics increasingly more expensive as he prospered, so that, by the end of the 18th century, fine rugs, silks and satins were used for that purpose. Work of Best Artists Wallpaper is the oiitgrowth of that evolutionary process, and at first these wallpapers were close imitations of fabrics, being modified as time went on to more varied styles, due to the classification of the rooms in a home, whereby divisions were made as between living rooms, chambers, dining

rooms, hall, etc., and it became feasih* by the method of reproduction of prir. " ing on paper to obtain the finest results from the best artists at a comparatively nominal cost. As he had already stated, the manufacturers of wallpapers had __ great progress in producing wallpav e • at moderate cost, and they were aJlc-r - ing the public by means of reprouu - tion of printing on paper the finest suits from the best artists. Study For Schools But unfortunately the talent quired for placing this product on wall was very limited indeed at *■« present time and there was no ova of vocational studies that J therefore, be developed more fully the art of hanging wallpaper. ' made an earnest plea that the var schools should increase their * !lt to induce a much greater number_ * engage in the study of hanging '• paper than that now existingHe appreciated that there w'ere ing needs in all industries, but it because of the close intimacy o wallpaper industry with the home, because the appearance of tie had so decided an influence on , n maintenance, and in turn excrcis influence on the family life, that 11 . he could not but dwell on its imp unce.