victorianism

First of all, is that a word? I don't know. Perhaps I made it up, perhaps not. If I did make it up, I think it should be a word. The Victorian era gave us so many examples of really awesome organic designs. Things that resemble parts of plants or vines, wallpaper that grows up the wall, fabrics with such intricate patterns that the eye dances with pleasure. I, for one, really enjoy the designs from this era in history. Personally I feel them coming back into style. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a Victorian wallpaper site called Bradbury & Bradbury. This site has several samples of the wallpapers that they sell in various colors and styles. I totally love them. I downloaded as many of the samples as I could and I've been working on photoshopping (another made up term, perhaps?) them into useable Photoshop patterns for general use on posters, desktops and web site backgrounds. One such example is the background for my personal blog. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong in this, but I think these things are really trendy right now. I mentioned the site and the available samples to one of my professors who was about to assign a Victorian poster assignment in one of her classes and I had the word trendy in the e-mail that I sent her. She replied by saying, "They may not be trendy, but they sure are timely." Are they really not trendy? I love them. Am I out of the trend? (wouldn't be the first time!)