Wallpaper Terms Flashcards
Stains that appear on the paper face that is caused by bad pasting methods or poor paper handling.
Adhesive Stains
Floral foliage or scroll patterns covering the entire paper.
Allovers
Applied or laid on, as figure cut on paper and laid on another paper.
Applique
The appearance of one color to another.
Bleeding
The paper is not flat to the substrate and has pockets of air trapped behind.
Blisters or Bubbles
Amount of rolls produced by a single color combination at one time.
Color Run
Designs that commemorate a historical event.
Commemorative
A set of design or papers to be used together in the same or adjacent areas.
Companion Paper
A design based on a document, and old paper or fabric dating from an earlier century.
Documentary
Installation technique where two strips of paper are overlapped, while the cut is made through the center of the overlapped seam and excess paper is removed.
Double-cut Wallpaper Seam
A printing surface is made of rubber cut in relief.
Flexography
Finely powdered silk, wool or other fibers glued onto paper.
Flocks
A thin sheet of flexible metal on paper, transparent or opaque in color which can be printed.
Foils
Paper printed from copper plates, leaving the design slightly impressed.
Gaufranes
Achieved by printing an adhesive to the areas where to apply a metal dust.
Gilding
Another term for gilding.
Silvering
Raw stock in which a coat of pigment is applied before the top colors are put on.
Ground
A process of printing with blocks in which a separate block is need for each color.
Hand-blocked
Produced by hand-screening.
Handprints
The trade name designating imported Chinese painted papers.
India
Widely used for imitating Spanish leather, ceramic tile and paneling.
Lincrusta
Powdered over with ground up paints, or having a thin metallic glaze.
Lusters
Any kind of wall painting printed on paper.
Murals
Process of putting together the wallpaper design.
Matching
Where one length of wallpaper encroaches on the next. Caused by poor workmanship, insufficient soaking or missing patches while pasting.
Overlapping
Where the paper is poorly matched, creased, polished or embossed papers become flat. This is caused by bad paper handling and over brushing.
Overstretch
A series of papers with a comprehensive presentation of a subject or area in every direction.
Panoramas
A process of photographic separation using copper or steel cylinders.
Photogravure
An enlarged photograph used as a mural on the wall.
Photomurals
A pictorial design continuing over several strips of paper.
Scenic
Produced by silk screen process.
Screen Print
Having scenes spaced at intervals.
Semi-scenic
Containing 36 square feet of surface after trimming.
Single Roll
Made from maize, corn, potato or wheat, powdered and made paste by adding water.
Starch Paste
Sealer used to prepare the wall before paper is applied.
Size
Paper fused or coated with vinyl plastic, rendering it impervious to steam and damp.
Vinyls
A wallpaper repeat where design elements run diagonally between one point identical on the wallpaper roll.
Wallpaper Half-drop Match
A wallpaper repeat refers to the vertical distance between one point to another identical point on the wallpaper roll.
Wallpaper Pattern Match
A wallpaper pattern will match from roll to roll regardless of how its positioned on the wall.
Wallpaper Random Match
The wallpaper design will match at the same position on each strip of the wallpaper.
Wallpaper Straight Match
