WALL-PAPER

the modern substitute for tapestry, stamped leather, and other mural hangings, was introduced into Europe from China and Japan by the Dutch and Spanish about 1555, and a few imitations of Genoese velvet were made of ‘flock’ on small handmade pieces in England in 16th cent. Wallpaper came into general use about 1830, town, on Tyne, North umber land, England, at E. end of Hadrian's Wall; collieries. Pop. (1921) 43,013.