Antique Framed Block Print Hand Painted Wallpaper Samples: C19th Alsace, France Gilt buckles a hanging basket filled with

a hanging basket filled with a profusion of flowers which are spilling out down the sides and is finished with decorative tassels

these panels were made originally as ‘Gaghra’ or skirt panels which would have been gathered into a waist band and tied around the waist

but in the most attractive way

there is a pencil drawn grid alongside smaller marked dot notations which would have been used by the weaver as a guide to colour and scale

Antique Framed Block Print Hand Painted Wallpaper Samples: C19th Alsace, France Gilt buckles a hanging basket filled withTwo superb examples of antique hand blocked wall paper made by Zuber & Cie Alsace, France C19th century. We have framed the papers in bespoke handpainted glazed frames to contrast with and compliment the papers. Zuber & Cie is a renowned French manufacturer of luxury wallpaper and fabrics. The Zuber saga began in 1797, and remained in the same family for almost 200 years, since its origins in Rixheim near Mulhouse, the birthplace of wallpaper. The