For more than a century, inexpensive ornamental paper, called domino, was used by peasants to decorate their homes. Printed by woodblock and stenciled with color, the papers first served to decorate fireplace mantels, and later, to line drawers and trunks, to cover the end pages of books, to cover walls, and to adorn fan leaves. Many fan leaves produced by other methods imitated the domino style, as seen in this example. This fan's painted patterns evoke the complex weaves found in contemporary French silk textiles.