Wallpaper sample approx. 50 cm of the wallpaper Nästgårds, brown.

Typical wallpaper from the second half of the 19th century with an elegant medallion pattern in a single-color print. The wallpaper was in a strong ultramarine blue color against a beige background in the lower hall of the Nästgårdshuset in Gysinge, probably put up in 1887. Here is the same pattern in brown, which is another typical variant of a single-color print from the time. The wallpaper is printed in the old glue dye technique on unprimed paper and the wallpaper therefore has a unique luster and thinness that is not available in other wallpaper prints. In return, an unprimed wallpaper is slightly, but only slightly, more fragile in the wallpapering process.

With the advent of Art Nouveau at the turn of the 20th century, a wide variety of new and modern patterns were introduced to wallpaper and textiles. There was everything from the strictly geometric to the undulating and floral. This particular wallpaper belongs to the latter category with its finely scattered flower stems and lobed leaves that form a playful and harmonious expression.

One of the great sources of inspiration at the time was Japanese woodblock prints with their masterfully composed plant decorations, and perhaps one senses some similar features here.

The Hullebo wallpaper is available in both a mild deep red and a muted medium green, both typical fashion colors of the period around 1900-1910. Together with a matching border, the pattern gives a stylish Art Nouveau feel and is particularly effective in combination with joinery painted in soft tones of, for example, Art Nouveau beige, English red or green umber.

Hullebo was found in one of the workers’ dwellings in Gysinge during an inventory in the early 1990s and has been waiting for a reprint ever since. Now it was finally time!

The wallpaper fits well in both small and large rooms, but here in Gysinge we think the pink would fit extra well as a bedroom wallpaper, as it gives a cozy and homely feeling.

A favorite revisited, reprinted in celebration of our 30 years in Building Conservation!

Wallpaper with a floral pattern from the 1920s in a modified vernacular style. Patterns of flowers, garlands and bows. The original is a wallpaper find that was found during the dismantling and relocation of our exhibition building Nästgårds in Gysinge.

Matching wallpaper border available. See related products.

When, in connection with the restoration of one of the attics at Wirums Säteri in Småland, we found the first flake of the wallpaper “Förmaket”, we thought we had found a real 18th century wallpaper. The diagonal checkered pattern with a small flower sprig in each square breathes very typical rococo. The flaming gray glue paint base also gives an unmistakable feeling of hand printing. Everything in our 18th century theory was right – until we found flag number two and saw that the pattern was printed on cellulose paper and not on paper made of cloth rag, as it should have been if it was genuine 18th century. The wallpaper also turned out to be made on a roll, not on glued sheets of paper, as in the 18th century. Today we know better. “Förmaket” is a wallpaper from around 1860, but of a low-key, elegant diagonal-patterned type that became popular already 100 years earlier – and is still one of the wallpaper printers’ favorite patterns. What distinguishes Gysinge’s wallpaper from other reprints is the uneven, handmade impression and the shifting ground color. Early machine printing art, one could define the wallpaper as.