Before the Victorian era, wrapping paper wasn’t a thing. Tissue paper or cloth always wrapped people’s Christmas presents.
One year the tissue paper ran out at a shop, and the enterprising store dudes convinced shoppers that French envelope liner paper was all the rage for present- wrapping.
Pretty stuff, it didn’t take that much convincing. Thus began a new trend.
Some shoppers who didn’t wish to pay for the French novelty paper made their own by putting paint designs on the surface of water and resting paper on it.
Nowadays, wrap is big business– and all because of a supply chain failure and a couple of clever lads.
This has been your Tuesday Trivia Tidbit.