Little Greene - Mandalay - Pollen - Wallpaper
 
Mandalay’ (Bateman’s) c.1712 This tree of life design is drawn directly from the leather wallcoverings in the dining room at Bateman’s, a Jacobean mansion in East Sussex. Elaborate designs such as these were inspired by 17th-century Indian chintzes, which often depicted sinuous flowering trees with birds among their branches. Leather hangings foreran wallpaper as we know it today, and although panels of this kind required a different skill to create, the process by which early wallpapers were hung, and their decorative effect in the room, is very similar. Documented as Dutch in origin, Mr & Mrs Rudyard Kipling paid 100 guineas for them in 1902, having recently bought Bateman’s as their family home. The paper versions are printed on a wide (70cm) roll and the pattern has been adapted to repeat effortlessly and continuously along the wall.
 
Wallpaper Collection: National Trust Papers II
 
Repeat: 3.25m x 2.1m
 
Roll Length: 10.05m, (11 yds)
 
Roll Width: 70cm, (27.6″)
 
Washability: Washable
 
Application: Paste the Wall