WALLPAPER TERMS Flashcards
-stain appears on the paper face, 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 figures cut from paper and laid on to another paper
Appliques
-the appearance of one color to another
Bleeding
- the paper is not flat on the substrate and has pockets of air trapped behind
- caused by under soaking or not evenly brushing paste, or insufficient smoothing whilst handling
Blisters or Bubbles
-amount of rolls produced of a single color combination at one time
Color Run
-designs that memorialize a historic event
Commemorative
-a set of designs and colors to be used together in the same or adjacent areas
Companion Papers
-design based on a document, an old paper, or fabric dating from an earlier century
Documentary
-installation technique where two strips of paper are overlapped, while a cut is made through the center of the overlapped seam and the excess paper is removed
Double-Cut Wallpaper Seam
-printing surface is made of rubber, cut in relief
Flexography
-finely powdered silk, wool, or other fibers glued onto paper
Flocks
-thin sheet of flexible metal on paper, transparent or opaque 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 that are to take the metal dust
- also known as silvering
Gilding
-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 needed for each color
Hand-Blocked
-produced by hand-screening
Hand-Prints
-trade name designating imported Chinese painted papers
India
-powdered over with ground up paints, or having a thin metallic glaze
Lusters
-any kind of wall painting printed on paper
Murals
-wallpaper pattern matches including random match, straight match and drop match
Matching
- where one length encroaches on the next
- poor workmanship, insufficient soaking or missing patches whilst pasting, which makes the paper, swell unevenly
Overlapping
- where the paper is poorly matched, creased, polished (shiny) or embossed papers are flattened
- 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 the 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 form, made to paste by adding water
- 3 types avail: cold water, hot water and dextrine
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
-wallpaper repeat where design elements run diagonally between 3 strips (across the wall) to complete the design
Wallpaper Half-Drop Match
-wallpaper pattern repeat refers to the vertical distance between one point to another identical point on the wallpaper roll
Wallpaper Pattern Match
-wallpaper pattern will match from roll to roll regardless of how it is positioned on the wall
Wallpaper Random Match
-sizes vary depending on where they are produced in Metric/Euro or American widths and lengths; package and sold in double or triple roll lengths to avoid waster
Wallpaper Sizes
-the wallpaper design will match at the same position on each strip of paper
Wallpaper Straight Match
