Complex sentence: In May 1852 red flock wallpaper designed to simulate 16th-century Italian velvets was supplied from J. G. Crace & Co. It survived until the 1960s and in 1987 new wallpaper was reprinted from the original "Rutland blocks", using distempered colours.
Split into simpler sentences: In May 1852 red flock wallpaper designed to simulate 16th-century Italian velvets was supplied from J. G. Crace & Co and it survived until the 1960s. In 1987 the paper was reprinted from the original "Rutland blocks", using distempered colours.