Home decoration
Anyone good at identifying wallpaper from over the decades?
EllyGee85 · 26/08/2015 21:11
What era would you say this textured beauty is from? Pink with blue splashes. In a bedroom cupboard.
MairzyDoats · 26/08/2015 21:18
I can even name it - it was called Anaglypta. And you could press your finger nail in it and leave satisfying marks behind.
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PourquoiTuGachesTaVie · 26/08/2015 21:29
My nan and grandad had wallpaper like that in their hallway when I was a toddler. I remember this because I liked picking at it and pressing my nails into it. 
EllyGee85 · 26/08/2015 21:32
So do we think definitely from the later 80s or could it be early 80s?
BerylStreep · 26/08/2015 21:59
Don't think it was early 80's.
Are you trying to track down some matching rolls?
TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 26/08/2015 22:02
fwiw it's blown vinyl, not anaglypta - anaglypta was pure paper, no plastic.
I couldn't tell you when it was first introduced but we bought our house in 1983 from an oldish anaglypta-type couple & there was no blown vinyl in it.
We put some up in about 1987-88; I guess it had been around for a while then.
Tiggeryoubastard · 26/08/2015 22:02
You could pick it with your nails in the study whilst avoiding doing homework. Then get a major bollocking.
Snoozebox · 26/08/2015 22:03
My Dad decorated our whole house in this in the late 80s...I remember!
PourquoiTuGachesTaVie · 26/08/2015 22:03
My grandparents moved into their house in 1985, so they decorated in that year or soon after.
TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 26/08/2015 22:03
at least anaglypta was a brand - used to be paper only - they might have done some blown vinyl later 
MairzyDoats · 26/08/2015 22:11
Oh alright, I stand corrected. Anaglypta was what my gran called it, she had it all over the shop. Definitely mid to late 80s.
HellKitty · 26/08/2015 22:12
Sounds like blown vinyl. I worked in a design factory late 80's and more and more of this shite was brought in which was a bastard to hand reproduce the art work. I left shortly after and still get a twitch so I'm thankful there are no pictures on this app 
RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 26/08/2015 22:16
Anaglypta - the bubble wrap of wallpapers
Even now as an alleged adult, I wouldn't be able to keep my mitts off it
WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 26/08/2015 22:19
I worked in a wallpaper shop in the early 90s and the books were full of samples very similar to that.
TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 26/08/2015 22:23
traditional (paper) anaglypta is lovely - I've had a sort of tulip design in my hall/stairs/landing for over 20 years & it will outlast me
TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 26/08/2015 22:25
It disguises any faults in old plaster & once it's up you can change the colour any time
Pipbin · 26/08/2015 22:37
They still do SuperFresco! www.grahambrown.com/uk/wallpaper/by-brand/superfresco-paintable
ThighsofThunder · 26/08/2015 22:37
Bastard blown vinyl. My ex's parents loved it. We moved in together in 2004 and they insisted we buy it as it "looks so nice". Fucking horrible. Nearly as bad as woodchip.
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