Sears roofing and metal ceilings
A 1910 mail-order trade catalogue issued by Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the United States, offering roofing and metal ceilings to builders and homeowners. Its pictures show rolled and folded roofing, shingles laid over bare roof boards, and overlapping tab shingles on a wall. A designer might take the repeating granular texture of the surfaces and the stepped, overlapping layouts as patterns.
