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Leather wallpaper

17th-century Dutch interior with gold leather hangings, Pieter de Hooch (c. 1665), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Detail of gold leather hangings at Skokloster Castle, 1660–1700
Andrea Brustolon sofa with black slaves covered with cordovan, National Museum in Warsaw

Leather wallpaper is a type of wallpaper used in various styles for wall covering. It is often referred to as wrought leather.[1] It is often gilded, painted and decorated. Leather was used to cover and decorate sections of walls in the houses of the rich, and some public buildings. Leather is pliable and could be decorated in various ways.

Cuir de Cordoue, or cordwain or cordovan (meaning: "from Córdoba"), sometimes called gold leather (from Dutch "goudleer"), refers to painted and gilded (and often embossed) leather hangings, manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry. These terms are mostly used for historical and antique materials.

  1. ^ Wrought Leather; as a medium of decoration by Helen Henderso] House & Garden, Volume 4 page 227
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