National Trust Papers wallpaper collection Little Greene

National Trust Papers wallpaper by Little Greene: historical patterns for your wall

With National Trust Papers wallpaper, you bring home historical patterns that Little Greene has released as wallpaper. The collection revolves around plants, flowers and birds, often on a light background. Yet no pattern resembles another. One is drawn as an engraving, another flat and graphic, a third painted as a continuous scene. The scale also varies, from a small motif that repeats tightly to a panorama that fills an entire wall. This lets you choose, room by room, how prominent the pattern should be.

Patterns in the National Trust Papers wallpaper collection

Stag Trail wallpaper shows trailing acanthus leaves with rosettes and bell-shaped flowers running diagonally across the wall, drawn with lines and hatching in multiple shades of blue on off-white. Hencroft wallpaper is smaller and tighter: symmetrical flower umbels with blue trumpet flowers, framed by green arches that recur like scales in staggered rows. Belton Scenic wallpaper does not repeat. It is a painted chinoiserie scene with bamboo, blossom branches, butterflies and birds, including a magpie, above a ground line. Pavona wallpaper shows peacocks and other birds among branches, flowers and leaves. Achillea wallpaper depicts stems and flower heads of yarrow in Art Nouveau style with solid colour areas. Pomegranate wallpaper has a baroque design that is based on an old block-printed find.

Combining National Trust Papers wallpaper with colour and woodwork

The woodwork plays its part. With Hencroft, the panel door, frame, arch and skirting are painted grey-blue, so that the blue from the pattern continues into the architecture. Under Belton Scenic, green skirting boards and a green door frame pick up the bamboo leaves, with a rust-pink sofa as a contrasting colour. Stag Trail gets light blue skirting boards next to a black sideboard. With Little Greene wallpaper it therefore pays to repeat one colour from the pattern on your woodwork.