Hannah's Treasures Vintage Wallpaper Blog

Antique Wallpaper: Selections from a 1913 Sample Book

We've said it before and we'll say it again: We love vintage wallpaper! The Hannah's Treasures vintage wallpaper collection encompasses a wide variety of genres, colors, manufacturers, printing techniques, and ages of vintage wallpaper. From the nearly 100-year-old 1920s papers to our growing collection of 1980s papers, we have wallpaper extending through seven decades of design! What a thrill it is to see these different pieces of history unroll before our very eyes each day. But even with a collection of over 20,000 rolls of authentic, old stock  wallpaper and nearly 2,000 different patterns available on our website (not including the additional papers we have on Etsy and Ebay), our collection still only showcases part of the story of vintage wallpaper-making.

Vintage Wallpaper Spotted In Our Favorite Chirstmas Movies

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and is looking upon the upcoming New Year with joy and hope.

If you follow us on Facebook (which I sure hope you do! like our page here), you may have already seen our excited post about discovering vintage wallpaper in the movie While You Were Sleeping. I've seen this movie what feels like hundreds of times. It's my favorite romantic holiday movie! But this time, I realized something I hadn't before.

A Personal Miracle, A Mystery Solved

Business is personal. And our hunts for wallpaper are deeply, deeply personal.

Each load of wallpaper that we find is the happy result of a long list of miracles. Financial miracles, communication miracles, timing miracles...bizarre circumstances that somehow preserve these large collections of paper for half a century--it takes all of these for one wallpaper load to come into our hands. We've had whole collections of wallpaper that have survived fires and building cave-ins. We've seen collections that have changed hands countless times and been the focal point family feuds. Some of these wallpaper stashes have been long-forgotten and suddenly found again, while others have been carefully maintained by fellow wallpaper-lovers looking for just the right person to pass their treasures on to.

Oh, how we could fill a book with the stories!

At the end of February, we experienced another one of these miracle loads, only this one was special for a new reason.

Vintage Laura Ashley Wallpaper Treasure Trove

If anyone shares a love for both beautiful vintage designs and petite florals, they are sure to immediately fall in love with these vintage Laura Ashley wallpapers from the 1970s.

We picked up a trove of these Laura Ashley papers in tandem with a larger collection of retro wallpapers from Canada. Most of the wallpapers from that load were bright, loud, and wild--the kind of papers that you expect from 1970s,--but these Laura Ashley papers were different. They were softer, more delicate, and invited us to recall the 1970s in a different hue than that of their blazing orange and gold counterparts.

A Thrilling Discovery of Vintage Wallpaper in Pennsylvania

A couple of weeks ago, we received a tip about some vintage wallpaper in Pennsylvania. So in a whirl of excitement, we packed our bags and immediately headed East to a town near Hershey in search of the hidden trove of wallpaper.

Chasing vintage wallpaper is like being on a treasure hunt, it's always an exciting adventure. We met some lovely people, traveled through parts of the country we don't often see, and returned home with some truly beautiful papers.