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As well as SALE & CLEARANCE Items! Tiles, Fabric and Arts & Crafts Carpets on sale – Discontinued and Clearance

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Welcome to our readers!

Welcome to our ninth newsletter. It is high summer here, with record breaking hot spells and record-breaking rain. August is upon us, and people are thinking back to school and fall decorating projects.

There has been a gap in sending out this newest Newsletter – but with good reason! We have been working very hard designing and printing our new wallpapers and fabrics for you.

This newsletter features our new wallpapers and fabrics: “The Garden Collection” – Part One.

We thought that our Newsletter readers would enjoy some behind the-scenes historic information on three of the designs in our new wallpaper collection. This information is included only for our Newsletter readers. Please see “What’s New? at Charles Rupert”(below) for this inside information.

Another Museum is using our wallpaper for their exhibits. See the Charles Rupert Business News in this Newsletter for more details about this exciting exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite artwork.

We are including some SALE & CLEARANCE items as well, that are being sold on a first-come, first served arrangement, with no holds on any merchandise. Please see the full list of available items with pictures below in this newsletter!

Please note: We were planning on featuring pictures of historic house museums in North and South Carolina and Georgia for the Historic Design article for this issue. We had so much fascinating background information and so many photographs about our new wallpaper designs and the houses that the designs were used in, that we are postponing this historic design article until the next Newsletter. The amazing restoration and preservation projects in Charleston and Savannah and Georgia deserve more attention and space than we have left in this issue, but we will include these great houses in the next Newsletter – stay tuned!

So please take time for some quiet summer reading, and enjoy our ninth Newsletter.

(As always, if you wish to unsubscribe, please return your email notification with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line.)

Thank you all for your continuing interest in the subject of historic design!

Stuart Stark
Design Director
Charles Rupert Designs Limited

On with the Newsletter..

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Charles Rupert Business News

We are proud to have just supplied the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington Delaware with William Morris’s “Marigold” wallpaper (designed in 1875) in a soft green on green colorway.

“Marigold” will be used as the background for the Museum’s premier collection of English Pre-Raphaelite artwork. The Collection has just wound up an international tour called “Waking Dreams”.

Morris-Rossetti Chairs	Bird Jar R. W. Martin and Brothers Pottery	Water Willow Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Pre-Raphaelite collection of paintings – including works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Willam Holman Hunt will be accompanied by furniture by William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and fantastic ceramic bird jars by R. W. Martin Brothers Pottery.

William Morris’ “Marigold” will provide a fitting background for the artwork by Morris and his contemporaries.

If you are in the Wilmington area, we encourage you to see this rare collection of art, which will reopen in the newly refurbished galleries on September 23, 2007.

For more information about the Delaware Art Museum and its exhibits, please see: http://www.delart.org/index.html

 

To see the full range of “Marigold” wallpapers please click here

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What's New at Charles Rupert?

Wild Tulip Wallpaper and Fabric – designed by William Morris in 1884

We are very proud to add even more wallpapers to our own exclusive designs and for the first time, we are adding three printed cotton fabrics. Inspired by the Garden, our new designs in 12 colourways of wallpaper and three printed cotton fabrics form a natural choice for home decoration.

The wallpapers range from delicately coloured William Morris designs, (“Wild Tulip” and “Bird & Anemone”) to a bold, large-scale floral Damask, which stayed popular from its design in 1892 through to the 1920’s, as well as a lush, richly-coloured document design of gilded ferns from 1890.

Three printed cotton fabrics coordinate with the William Morris “Wild Tulip” wallpapers. The fabrics are the first printed fabrics from Charles Rupert Designs and are exclusively printed for our business.

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Behind-the-Scenes of a wallpaper collection…

Three of the new wallpapers have intriguing histories, which we wanted to share with our Newsletter readers…. 

We had already decided to print “Wild Tulip” – a William Morris design from 1884 - from an archival document in the Charles Rupert Design Archives.  We matched two of the colourways to historic fragments, but we also wanted to print a further colourway that we had only seen at Wightwick Manor, a National Trust property in England. 

Wightwick Manor, near Wolverhampton, England

Contact was made, and permission was granted to visit the house and match the colours of the original William Morris wallpaper on the walls of the Dining Room at Wightwick.

The “Wild Tulip” wallpaper design has eight colours, and it uses Morris’ technique of fine dots throughout the design to define the flowers and leaves, and give them shape.  We have painstakingly copied original artwork to give the same shape and feel as the original hand-blocked papers of Morris’ day.

 
Detail: Wild Tulip matched to the original Morris paper in the Dining Room of Wightwick Manor

 

The Dining Room at Wightwick Manor, with “Wild Tulip” wallpaper

What often appears in photos to be a terra-cotta colourway, is actually a raspberry background, with creams, red, brick and terra-cotta as secondary colours. A very handsome and striking colourway, the match for the paper in Wightwick’s Dining Room is now available again as a wallpaper.

The entrance court at Wightwick Manor

Wightwick (pronounced “Wittick”) is a splendid house, built in two stages in 1887 and 1891 in the Medieval Revival style.  William Morris’ company was entrusted with the interior decoration, and the result is a rich interior of wood paneling, Morris wallpapers, stenciled beams, and comfortable furniture and carpets.

Views of Wightwick Manor

Still set in 17 acres of grounds and gardens, Wightwick has a topiary garden, small lakes, an orchard and woodland.  It is a house that is well worth a visit near Wolverhampton, England.

“Wild Tulip” is now available in five colourways in wallpaper and three colourways in printed cotton

Click here to see “Wild Tulip” information

For more information on Wightwick Manor, please See:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-wightwickmanor/

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Our second intriguing wallpaper comes from a Canadian Historic House.  In 1985, I visited Guisachan House in Kelowna, in the interior of British Columbia. 

Guisachan House, Kelowna, British Columbia. c1892

I was shown around, and I admired the original wallpaper that had been patched and carefully restored.  A small piece of the wallpaper was given to me for our archives.

Lady Aberdeen wrote: "The bungalow sort of house… was really charming: kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room, hall, papered with Japanese gold and crimson papers… Then four good-sized bedrooms… and a broad verandah round three sides of the house."
Source: We Twa: Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen, 1925 about their life, including their years in Canada.

A small fragment of the original paper – still on the original muslin backing

Lord & Lady Aberdeen

This wallpaper was installed in this house on their ranch by Lord and Lady Aberdeen in 1891.  Lord Aberdeen was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
 
Late in 2006, I received a telephone call from the Conservator for the house, explaining that the site had suffered a fire, and could we help restore the wallpaper that had been badly charred? (Most of the house was, thankfully, all right).  I was able to go to my files, pull out the original piece that I had been given in 1985, and say that not only could I help, but I could match the original colours from my intact fragment in our files.

The sample with original colouring and intact gilded ferns at the bottom,
and the charred and smoke-damaged wallpaper from the house, where the
gilding had turned brown.

The artwork for the overall design was recreated from the charred remains, and the colours matched to the original fragment in the Charles Rupert Designs archives.

The wallpaper was reprinted, using vintage wallpaper machines, as the original had been printed.

The resulting wallpaper has been named “Aberdeen Ferns”, in honour of Lord and Lady Aberdeen. The wallpaper is a lush and gilded design from the c1890 period, and of a style rarely reproduced today.. 

Guisachan House (pronounced Goo-shi-gan) had been built for Lord and Lady Aberdeen as a residence on their ranch in British Columbia. Guisachan House was named after Lady Aberdeen's home in Scotland.
 
The Kelowna area often gets very hot in the summer – up to 100º F. or more – and before air-conditioning, one can imagine the relief you would feel walking into a cool sitting room surrounded by this green and gold wallpaper. A real oasis from the heat outside.

Click here to see “Aberdeen Ferns” information

Guisachan House is now preserved and operated by the
Central Okanagan Heritage Society.

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The third background story is about the “Chelsea Damask” wallpaper from “The Garden Collection”.  We had acquired the design from the archives of an old, established, eastern American wallpaper company that was regrettably going out of business. 

We had also acquired the original woodblock that the paper was printed from in the 1890’s. We put the design ‘on-side’ to print soon, as it was a handsome and timely pattern to reintroduce to our customers, as the popularity for damask designs was gaining ground once again.

While visiting Asheville, North Carolina in February 2006, when “The Historic Wallpapers Collection” was being launched at the Grove Park Arts & Crafts Show”, we visited Biltmore House.  Biltmore was built in the 1890’s by George Vanderbilt. “Biltmore” is the largest house built in North America, and the 250 rooms of the house and the 8,000 acre estate are extraordinary. 

Biltmore House on a cold February Day

One of the third floor bedrooms had the matching wallpaper to the design and woodblock in the Charles Rupert Designs Archives. We contacted the curator, who kindly showed us a fragment of their original wallpaper from the bedroom in a gold and brown colourway.  We have printed the design in three new colourways: Pale green on Cream; Ivory on Putty; and Slate on Bronze.

The three colourways of “Chelsea Damask” now available

“Chelsea Damask” wallpaper is a large-scale floral damask, particularly suited to large, gracious rooms in Colonial Revival style or other period homes.  It is particularly suited to Drawing Rooms, Dining Rooms and hallways.  It can also successfully be used as a feature wall in new houses.

Click here to see “Chelsea Damask” information

Entrance to the stable block at Biltmore	The house from the estate

See the Biltmore House website at: http://www.biltmore.com for more information about the history and visiting this remarkable historic site.

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All of the wallpapers in “The Garden Collection” are printed on vintage wallpaper machines for an unparalleled texture and historic accuracy, and come fully trimmed in 20.5" x 33' rolls.

They are printed on real paper, from managed forests, and are formaldehyde-free.  Either wheat paste or cellulose paste is used to hang them, which is environmentally friendly.

The wallpapers are in-stock, and exclusive to Charles Rupert Designs. Sampling is, as always, available.
Please see our Sample Cutting Service page.

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SALE & CLEARANCE SECTION!
Tiles, Fabrics and Arts & Crafts Carpets

These items are for sale. They are end of lines, last of a colourway, or found at the back of a shelf in our warehouse.
They are only available to the people who have signed up for our newsletter.

They are strictly limited in amount available, and are only available on a first come - first served arrangement.

All items are first quality.
Please phone us with your orders.

Order Desk Hours:
Telephone: 250-592-4916
Our phone Order Desk operates
Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time.
We are closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Delivery charges are extra. We have noted the delivery charges with each item below.

Items for Sale:

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SALE & CLEARANCE
Tiles - Discontinued lines – Limited Quantities
50% OFF regular prices

Four Victorian Tiles Designs –
These four tiles are a full 6” x 6” x 3/16” thick
Good for wall tiles; trivets; projects.
Made in England – first quality
50% OFF regular price –
Now only $ 12. each.

The minimum shipping charge for one tile is $8 Canadian. Add $3 per tile after that up to 10 tiles. For orders of more than 10 tiles, we will quote shipping. Please see our Currency Convertor

Wood Anemone – 100+ tiles available – 6” x 6”

Blue Peony – 100+ tiles available – 6” x 6”

Apple Blossom – 100+ tiles available – 6” x 6”

Sweet Briar – 100+ tiles available – 6” x 6”

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SALE & CLEARANCE
Fabrics - Discontinued lines – Limited Quantities
50% - 70% OFF regular prices

All prices shown are already discounted

Shipping charges are noted under each fabric

UPDATE AUG 20, 2007 - We have sold some fabric pieces from this section,
the listings have been removed and the Sold List is at the bottom of the page

Honeysuckle LIN 4019-02 (mid blue/melon/pink & burg flower)
Designed by William Morris
• 1 piece 53" x 54” wide only left @ $99 CDN for the piece
• Fabric will be sent folded in a bubblepak envelope, by trackable
Xpresspost for a charge of $ 20. CD

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Hydrangea Weave – Red Flower – DETAIL

Hydrangea Weave – Red/Pink Flowers – Full width (Suitable for Edwardian/Colonial Revival homes)
70% off Regular Retail Price
• Fabric: 55" wide of 63% viscose, 22% polyester, and 15% cotton:
• Medium weight weave
• Red/Pink on Cream -3 3/4 yds@$140. for the entire piece.
• Sold as one piece only, no cuts available.
• Shipping by quotation to your postal or zip code.

Gingko Leaf Cotton Weave – Close up

Gingko Cotton Weave - DETAIL

Gingko Cotton Weave - Full width - suitable for Arts & Crafts homes
50% off Regular Retail Price
• Fabric: 54” wide 100% cotton weave.
• A luxurious heavy weight double weave 54" wide reversible cotton. One side is cream and the other taupe. The fabric field is plain with woven different size gingko leaves loosely spread across the width. On the cream side the gingko leaves appear taupe, and on the taupe side they appear cream. The width of the gingko leaves range from 3 1/2" wide to 5 1/2" wide. There are approx 5 or 6 of these elements across the width of the fabric. The placement of these leaves appears gently random.
• This fabric was a stand-out favourite for customers in our Shop and Showroom. It never appeared on our online catalogue as it was so difficult to present well in photography. We can offer free small samples of this fabric.
• Approx 30 yards available.
• 50% off Regular Retail Price – NOW $ 72. per yard
• Minimum order is one yard. Shipping by quotation to your postal or zip code.
• Sampling is available for this fabric ONLY

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Compton Minor fabric
• 30+ yards @ $19 per yard (cuts available)
Designed by J.H.Dearle in 1895
Lightweight Cotton
Fabric: 100% cotton 57" width
Repeat: 7 7/8"
• Fabric will be sent folded in a bubblepak envelope,
for a charge of $ 10. for 1 yard. (2 yards $12.)

Pimpernel Minor fabric
• 2 yard piece @ $37 for the piece. No cuts available.
Designed by William Morris in 1876
Lightweight Cotton
Fabric: 100% cotton 47" wide
Repeat: 4 5/8"
• Fabric will be sent folded in a bubblepak envelope,
for a charge of $ 20.

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All prices are in Canadian dollars - Please check our Currency Converter to find amount in US dollars, £ Sterling, Euros, Australian dollars, or other currency.

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FABRICS SOLD:
Lily Cotton - $75. for one 2 yard piece
Napper's Tulip Weave 4510-01 Major
One 3 1/3 yard piece @ $196 
One 2 1/4 yard piece @ $134
Napper’s Tulip Medium - Red Flower 4 1/3 yards @ $192.
Nanking Toile Weave –Brick on Cream 2 3/4 yards @ $104.
Hydrangea Weave - Blue on Cream - 3 1/4 yards @ $122.
Peacock Feather Weave – Tan and Heather - 4 yards @ $178.

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SALE & CLEARANCE
Arts & Crafts Carpets -
Discontinued lines and Clearance

Limited Quantities 40% OFF regular prices –

Regular prices and SALE prices are shown.

Shipping charges for the carpets will be by quotation to your postal or zip code.

UPDATE AUG 20, 2007 - We have sold some carpets from this section,
the listings have been removed and the Sold List is at the bottom of the page

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Our Arts and Crafts rug collection is hand knotted in India using wool imported from New Zealand. These carpets blend seamlessly with both English and American Arts and Crafts décor.

They are well-made, handsome carpets. We are clearing them from our Showroom to let us concentrate on our exclusive Charles Rupert Designs’ Wallpapers and Fabrics.

This offer will not be repeated. Buy now at these excellent prices.
All prices shown in Canadian dollars.

The images shown on your monitor will not necessarily show the colouring accurately. We have given additional colour descriptions under each image. Also, please call our Showroom Manager Bonnie Alexander at 250-592-4916 if you would like to discuss or clarify any of the carpet particulars.

ALL SALES ARE FINAL. WE CANNOT SHIP ANY CARPET “ON APPROVAL”.

Fintona Carpet - Originally displayed at the Grafton Gallery, London during a Liberty's exhibition in 1903
Colours: In umbered reds, burnt sienna, camel, medium blue and blue-gray on ivory ground.
Size: 5’ 10” x 8’ 4 1/2” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India.

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD.
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

Gingko Border Carpet
Colours: an oatmeal field with camel brown border and sage green and burgundy-brown accents.
Size: 5’11” x 8’ 10 1/2” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India.

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD.
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

Hammersmith Carpet (designed by William Morris c.1885)

Colours: Navy blue, red, forest green, gold, pale yellow, and light blue.
Size: 5’11” x 8’ 10 1/2” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India.

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

Wiltshire Carpet
Colours: A warm brown ground with spruce green, light yellow green, soft golden-brown and pale blue accents.
Size: 5’ x 6’10” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India

Regular Price: $ 1,995 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,197 CAD

 

Voysey Border Carpet
Colours: The bright rose-red ground is surrounded by a rust border with pale yellow, light blue, apple green and black accents.
Size: 5’11” x 8’10” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1677 CAD

Wyndham Carpet
Colours: A sage green field with bands of gold, spruce green foliage, and accents in violet and deep plum, highlights of soft light blue and ivory.
Size: 5’11” x 9’ (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

Thistle (Pink) carpet
Colours: Rose field and border
Size: 6’2” x 8’9 1/2” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

Duleek Carpet Originally designed by C.F.A. Voysey c.1903 as a madras fabric, the design was later produced as a carpet and sold through Liberty’s of London.
Colours: a richly colored range of olive browns, greens, medium and light blues and natural wood tones with dark cream and pale blue.
Size: 6’2” x 8’10” (not including fringe) 1 only
100% New Zealand wool pile, hand-knotted in India

Regular Price: $ 2,795 CAD
SALE PRICE: 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

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CARPETS SOLD:
“Grafton” Carpet - 40% OFF = $ 915 CAD
“Donnemara” Carpet - 40% OFF = $ 1,920 CAD
“Tulip & Lily” Carpet - 40% OFF = $ 1,920 CAD
"Oak Park" Carpet - 40% OFF = $ 1,677 CAD

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If at any time, you wish to talk to a real, live person, at Charles Rupert Designs, please phone us at 250-592-4916, and we will be pleased to help you with orders or questions.

Order Desk Hours:
Our phone Order Desk operates
Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5 pm Pacific Time.
We are closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Showroom Hours:
If you wish to visit our Showroom in Victoria, we are open Monday to Friday from 11am to 4pm Pacific Time.
We are closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Email: theshop@charles-rupert.com

We would be pleased to see you!

Thank you for reading this Newsletter!

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