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This bold and witty
Traite des Couleurs
wallpaper from Mind
The Gap (£175 for three rolls) will
raise a smile from anyone whose
decorative adventures always
begin with endless tester pot
patches. Making a virtue of
indecision, the company has taken
facsimile copies of pages from
A Boogert’s 1692 book Traité des
Couleurs Servant à la Peinture à
l’Eau, which ran to 800 pages and
is thought to be the first guide to
paint and colour.

Four of

the best

antique
Katya de Grunwald; Carolyn Barber; Getty Images

textiles

TAPESTRY TALE WELSH WONDER SWEET SAMPLE COOL KILIM
Delicate designs on
A mid 18th-century This 1920s tapestry This beautiful A lovely vintage
rich fabrics that will tapestry fragment blanket (£899, 1815 sampler flat-woven wool rug
(£3,200, Julia Jane Beck Welsh (£POA, Witney (£230, Vinterior)
enliven your walls
Boston Antiques) Blankets) is poppy Antiques) is worked featuring an
depicting goddess red on one side in coloured silk intricate geometric
of hunting, Diana, and soft lavender thread on a fine design in
and her bow. on the other. linen ground. earthy colours.

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