Victorian Wallpaper Collection For Daz Studio Iray Merchant Resource

Featuring popular Victorian elements and created from an authentic color palette picked from the shades used at the time, this collection should meet the vast majority of your papering needs when decorating for the era. Whether your characters are rich or poor, whether your room is in a charming cottage or a brooding gothic castle, there's sure to be something to suit.



Wallpaper was strictly for the rich before Victoria came to the throne, an event which almost coincided with the abolition of the wallpaper tax just a year earlier in 1836, and with the patent of a four color printing machine in 1839 which could produce 400 rolls a day. Discoveries and innovations in dye production also helped prices to fall and allowed wallpaper to become accessible to all but the very poorest.



Flock wallpaper was one of the more expensive papers, in which a raised design - typically damask and given a different color to the background that it was stuck to - was produced by using waste from the wool industry. For rooms which weren't generally on public display, a 'mock flock' would often be used. These were simply flat wallpapers printed to give the impression of flock and could also be found in the 'best' rooms of the middle classes. Metallic gilding usually only saw the homes of the wealthy.



Victoria reigned for an incredible 64 years. Advances in other fields such as transport influenced what was portrayed on Victorian walls too, and the fish, fruit, birds and flowers which had long been firm favorites became more exotic along the way. Some of the designs could be a little ugly or overwhelming, but colors were mostly muted although they did become a little more vibrant towards the end of the period. Red was popular due the assertion by several 'in vogue' artists of the day that their paintings were best displayed against it. Yellow was seen as the worst backdrop for art.



Embossed or 'relief' papers were beginning to make an appearance in the 1870s, most of which were washable. Washable prints followed around fifteen years later, by which time an emerging Victorian obsession with hygiene had seen to it that genuine flock had pretty much had it's day.



This collection includes twenty-five prints (six flock designs, six guilded designs, six mock flock designs and nine standard prints), four relief designs with twenty-four authentic Victorian color presets for them, optional dirt presets (five opacity presets plus an OFF preset) and eleven scaling presets. Relief patterns and dirt will only be visible on rendering.



The shaders may be used as a merchant resource to create material presets for commercial models, but may not be resold as shader presets or in any other form from which the seamless texture files included can be extracted.