The original William Morris wallpapers were printed by hand using pear wood blocks and this method of production continues today but on a very small scale as it is, of course, extremely expensive to do. At Charleston, though, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant did not have ambitions to go into commercial production, but used stencils to create lively, patterned, one-off wallpaper designs to decorate the walls of their rooms (all the designs can be seen in the Charleston collection).