{"id":149,"date":"2007-09-07T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-01-05T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:05:09","slug":"creepy-wallpaper-and-fabric-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Wallpaper and Fabric Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/iguana.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Iguana Print Wallpaper' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timorousbeasties.com\/\">Timorous Beasties<\/a> offers a variety of surreal wallpaper, fabric, and accessories with patterns both subtle and provocative.  Here&#8217;s a quote from their &#8220;About&#8221; page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By depicting uncompromisingly contemporary images on traditional textiles and wallpapers, Timorous Beasties has defined an iconoclastic style of design once described as &#8220;William Morris on acid.&#8221; Typical is the Glasgow Toile. At first glance it looks like one of the magnificent vistas portrayed on early 1800s Toile de Jouy wallpaper, but closer inspection reveals a nightmarish vision of contemporary Glasgow where crack addicts, prostitutes and the homeless are depicted against a forbidding backdrop of dilapidated tower blocks and scavenging seagulls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The firm is located in the U.K., but they also have a supplier in New York: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandandsherry.com\/\">Holland and Sherry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/halloweenhotlist.blogspot.com\/\">Halloween Hotlist<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timorous Beasties offers a variety of surreal wallpaper, fabric, and accessories with patterns both subtle and provocative. Here&#8217;s a quote from their &#8220;About&#8221; page: By depicting uncompromisingly contemporary images on traditional textiles and wallpapers, Timorous Beasties has defined an iconoclastic style of design once described as &#8220;William Morris on acid.&#8221; Typical is the Glasgow Toile. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23953,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/23953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}