Wallpaper first appeared in China because the Chinese invented paper, and secondly because they glued rice paper onto their walls as early as 200 BC.

Chinese court official Lun, invented papermaking from textile waste, ie from rags. This is the birth of paper as we know it today.

Some time in the 8th century, a number of Chinese prisoners with papermaking skills worked under Arabs, who in turn, spreading knowledge throughout the Middle East paper.

By the 10th century, Arabs have been replaced flax and bamboo wood, creating a better paper. Paper reached a level much higher quality.

In the 12th century, papermaking had spread throughout Europe.
The first print volume of European religious souvenir photo today is known as "helgen". The oldest known, a representation of the Virgin Mary, on 14-18th It is now in the Royal Library at Brussels. This type of printing method can also be used by the Chinese in the early 5th century.

Jean Bourdichon 50 scrolls painted with angels on a blue background for Louis XI of France in 1481. King Louis ordered the portable wallpaper because he found the need to move frequently from castle to castle . He was commissioned painting artists decorate its walls, but real wallpaper can hardly be said to have existed until the advent of the printing press.

These artifacts decorated first floor of Europe still exists today was found in the bunches Lodge of Christ's College in Cambridge, England and dates from 1509. It is an Italian inspired woodcut pomegranate design printed on the back of an announcement by Henry VIII.

A wallpaper association was first established in France in 1599.
Jean-Michel Papillon, a French artist is considered the inventor of the wallpaper, starting blocks in the combined design, continuous model in 1675, and wallpapers as we know it today is on the way.