The walls come unglued?

Where have we been??? You may have noticed the lack of participation on the blog and in email in general... well we're working! Not only at our jobs but on the next room... the wall paper surface has been stripped and we're ready to come unglued! This stuff was heavy duty vinyl... like contact paper... so if we disappear again... you'll know why! Just hope its not from getting stuck in the wall paper! Here are some fun facts on wall paper... or sanatis?



-Wallpaper actually began in ancient China, first because the Chinese invented paper, and secondly because they glued rice paper onto their walls as early as 200 B.C.
-Jean Bourdichon painted 50 rolls of paper with angels on a blue background for Louis XI of France in 1481. King Louis ordered the portable wallpaper because he found it necessary to move frequently from castle to castle. Other well-heeled Europeans commissioned artists to paint paper for their walls, but real wallpaper can hardly be said to have existed till the advent of the printing press.
-The oldest existing example of flocked wallpaper comes from Worcester and was created in approximately 1680.
-Frenchmen, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf invented the first machine for printing wallpaper in 1785. Frenchmen, Nicholas Louis Robert invented a way to make an endless roll of wallpaper around the same time.
-In 1888, Ferdinand Sichel developed the first ready-to-use wallpaper paste.
-In 1890, flexographic printing is invented in England.
-Wallpaper pasting machines first appeared around the turn of the 20th century.
- After World War II, the entire industry was revolutionized with the appearance of plastic resins which offered stain resistance, washability, durability and strength.
-In 1974, the National Guild of Professional Paperhangers was established in the United States.