Repurposed by God

In the early 1930s, Cleo McVicker came up with a product that could be used as wallpaper cleaner.

- Kenneth Petersen

Back then, most homes were heated by coal, and walls became covered in soot. Cleo's invention could be rolled over wallpaper and would pick up the grime. Well, the wallpaper cleaner never became popular, but decades later, a teacher used Cleo's product in her classes to create Christmas ornaments. From that was born a new company—Rainbow Crafts—and the w