Contemporary wallpaper KANSAS

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The Be Grateful Wall Paper collection takes a journey through different landscapes and cultures, all the way to the 'New World' with Edson's Kansas countryside. The colours collection of the "Kansas" pattern emphasises contrasts between light and dark colours. It is 1895 and Katharine Lee Bates writes the poem 'America the Beautiful'. He is in his early 30s and she is travelling west to teach a summer course at Colorado College. For a young single woman at the time, this was no ordinary undertaking, and it was this adventure that inspired her to write this ode to America. She travelled by train through the "amber waves of grain" of Kansas, the same ones that inspired this pattern for our wallpaper. Kansas is a state in the centre of the United States that owes its name to the river of the same name, which in turn took its name from the Kansa tribe of Native Americans. The land is mostly flat or hilly, with the altitude rising as one moves from the east to the west, approaching the Rocky Mountains in neighbouring Colorado, where the mountains top 1,000 metres. The waves of wheat are the hills of Edson, a land of great plains with wheat fields stretching as far as the eye can see.