Show How WALLPAPER Is MADE MADES 0 very few persons know how the paper that t S SO decorates their walls is made that the process process process pro pro- cess is usually looked upon as a sort of trade secret though it need not be so Because very little has been published about wallpaper making i the average intelligent gent person probably knows G Y- Y less about v ho it is made than about any other manufactured article that is in general use use To watch the paper come down in an endless j strip and pass around the big drum that is the main mom part t of a wallpaper printing machine is really fascinating according to a writer in the I u J s r p its 4 f L Lw n w r L i III r dl 1 ti i ing Carving the Rolls r for or Prin Printing ting W W a 0 11 1 1 n n AV Scientific American who gives the following interesting interesting interesting in in- description of how wallpaper is is made Arranged at intervals around the drum and press press- v II alGI paper I ing lag against the paper arc are rollers each one of which carries in relief a portion of the pattern As the paper passes around this revolving drum each of these rollers prints upon it one of tho the colors that go to make up the complete design The color is carried up t to these rollers from the pans that contain the supply of color by sw swift t running cloth belts When the tho paper comes out at the other side of the machine it shows the complete design It is taken from the machine on a broad canvas belt at the end of ot which it is picked up by an ingenious device that that places a astick astick astick stick or orand wand and crossways under the paper and swiftly carries it on sprocket chains up to the ceiling The paper hangs in loops from these sticks reaching from fron the ceiling almost to tho the floor and slowly disappears down the long drying room the heated atm atmosphere sphere of which quickly removes the moisture As the paper comes from the drying room it itis itis itis is automatically wound into big rolls roIls known as reels These reels are then put on to a rolling machine in charge of a woman operator The paper comes toward her along a wooden trough and is mechanically wound on a rapidly revolving steel rod When the tho operator sees a mark in the margin she stops the rolling machine and cuts the paper off for she knows that she has what is known wn as a double roll These rolls are th then n made marte up in bundles of 50 each bundle bein being wrapped in stout paper ready for shi shipment t to t the wallpaper dealer But this is not by any MY means means all an there is to the manufacture of modern wallpaper The work that has to be done before the printing machine is brought into use and the 1 processes esies through which many of the papers pass after afUr they are printed involve the most difficult and time consuming labor Before the pattern is printed tho the paper In Inmost Inmost inmost most instances must be given a plain foundation tint known as a ground color This is done by a a. machine that applies the color and spreads it evenly by means of a number of brushes that t I scrub crosswise of the paper and are worked by mechanical F From this a 1 arms om machine it passes into the long drying room and when it comes mes out is in the form of a large roll 1011 ready for insertion into the printing machine Even earlier thap this for months in fact before the printing of the paper is begun the work of making the printing rollers has been J carried on slowly by skilled workmen who cut and fit small strips of brass which they drive into the face of the wooden roller to conform to the design marked on the surface of the roller rolIer Some j r parts of the thin brass and the tho cells thus formed j jare i iare are arc filled in with felt Some papers are printed from copper rollers upon which the pattern has has' j been carefully and patiently engraved by hand k Before the making of the rollers roHel'S can be be begun bun J the parts of the he design that are to be printed in each color must be he s separately drawn and transferred transferred trans- trans 1 to the rollers The Th work of the designer naturally precedes 1 all other work for his water color color draw drawing ol of 1 the pattern showing the paper just as Jt It will i j appear when completed is is the starting point After the pap paper r is printed it often is embossed emboss d before being rolled ready for the market This fe Gs done on a special machine in which the paper I asses under a steel roller the entire surface of has been en engraved raved to represent the threads J of a woven fabric the roughness of brush stippling p pling ling the grain of leather or some other ther texture As the paper passes passe between this roller anda anda and and- andI I Ia a larger one which has a soft surface the texture 5 effect is pressed into the wallpaper f I |