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