Relief printing with wallpaper

Printmaking with Wallpaper
Printmaking with Wallpaper

Textured wallpaper, or embossed textured wallpaper was designed to be on the walls and ceilings in1888.. This was popular with Victorians creating decorative patterns to replicate  plastered ceilings. Anaglypta wallcoverings were used below the dado particularly in hallways and stairs as they were hard wearing replicate panel walls.

 Later it  was used by the DIY decorator to covering up lumpy bumpy wall surfaces which leads to the rises of wood chip paper which was less decorative 

Texture wallpaper from a sample book

Printing with Texture wallpaper

Some of the Anaglypt textured wallpaper are robust and easy to clean making it ideal for printing

Ink up with Akua soy in using a Roller

This technique using the embossed paper with roller and using jigsaw or layering the wallpaper is more inline with relief printing than collagraph

Jigsaw wallpaper print with Tetra Pak building
Jigsaw wallpaper print with Tetra Pak building
Wallpaper Relief print using Akua intaglio inks
Wallpaper Relief print using Akua intaglio inks
Relief print using wallpaper barns in Yorkshire dales
Relief print using wallpaper barns in Yorkshire dales
Leeds university different texture wallpaper Relief printing
Leeds university different texture wallpaper Relief printing
Whitby abbey Recycled wallpaper relief print using akua inks
Whitby abbey Recycled wallpaper relief print using akua inks

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