Wallpaper is used in interior decoration to cover the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. It is usually sold in rolls and is applied onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets.
The traditional hand-blocking technique, France in 1877
Hand-painted Chinese wallpaper showing a funeral procession, made for the European market, c. 1780
'Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique', panels 1-10 of woodblock printed wallpaper designed by Jean-Gabriel Charvet and manufactured by Joseph Dufour
"Artichoke" wallpaper by Morris and Co, designed by John Henry Dearle
A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated like a wallpaper design.
Snowflake sixfold symmetry
Aloe polyphylla phyllotaxis
Vortex street turbulence
Dune ripple