The elegant freehand line quality of the original drawing adds extra charm to this relaxed scene of boats at anchor

at Hencroft Works in Leek

It was installed there in the 1870s and has the painterly finish of traditional Chinese silk

width 19cm

This wallpaper was the first to decorate the walls of one of the buildings that replaced the prison in the late 1870s

LITTLE GREENE Tapete - Stag Trail - Sky Prophet The elegant freehand line qualityThis classic Georgian design from the National Trust Papers collection can be seen at Greyfriars, a medieval wooden house in Worcester. Elsie Moore, a 20th century owner of the property, purchased some unused scrolls from a parish in nearby Pershore and displayed cut outs from them as framed panels in her pale yellow dining room. Suspecting that the turquoise pigment in the background might contain arsenic, she wrapped the panels in plain wrapping