Vinyl wallpapers and silk screen printing: material features
Silk-screen vinyl wallpaper allows you to make any interior beautiful and unique. These materials are a type of vinyl wallpaper that glues to the walls quite simply, made on the basis of vinylized paper, painted using a fairly sophisticated technology.
Silk-screen vinyl wall-paper is produced by hot stamping, applying polyvinyl chloride to the base interspersed with silk or artificial threads, and then using high pressure, the material is embossed. The article offers to get acquainted with the features of the material and its gluing on the walls with your own hands.
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Features of the silk screen printing method
Silk screen printing allows the dye to be applied with a thick layer of any consumable.
The embossing technique includes several technological operations:
- Frame tension.
- The choice of sieve fabric.
- Selection of colors.
- Getting stable forms.
- Drying.
Screen printing and vinyl wallpapers have several advantages:
- The production process is quite simple.
- A variety of consumables are used.
- The paint layer has a significant thickness.
- Coatings with bright and rich colors.
- With small and medium runs is not a high price.
- There are solutions that cannot be implemented using other printing methods.
- Wallpaper silk-screen printing has sufficient durability.
- They have a spectacular appearance.
Silk screen manufacturing technology looks something like this:
- A canvas made of paper or non-woven fabric is impregnated with polyvinyl chloride - PVC.
- Silk thin threads or artificial fibers interspersed in the resulting stripes.
- Vinylized paper is exposed to intense heat.
- High pressure stamping is performed.
After performing all operations, a canvas is obtained that looks like paper and textiles, which is associated with the use of both.
Tip: To improve the characteristics of the material should take a non-woven backing for wallpaper, it is much better than paper.
Screen printing features
Silk-screen wallpaper contains two layers:
- Bottom of paper or non-woventhat allows you to reliably glue the material to the surface.
- The top is made of vinyl with the inclusion of silk threads, its structure can be embossed or smooth, very similar to silk fabric. Screen printing is made under textured plasterskin.
In the interior of the wall, silk-screen printing and vinyl wallpapers look excellent. Most often, these materials have floral ornaments and paintings to simulate silk fabric as much as possible, with beautiful and clear patterns, which creates the complete impression of the presence of silk fabric with gilt threads on the walls, as seen in the photo.
Screen printing benefits:
- High strength, which provides vinyl used in the manufacture.
- Increased wear resistance.
- Durability.
- Resistance to sun rays.
- Rolls are available in large widths.
Despite the high cost of silk-screen printing wallpapers, they are quite popular. The coating can give the interior a unique, refined charm and luxury.
They are suitable for finishing any room in the apartment:
- Living room (see How to choose wallpaper for the living room: designer tips).
- The bedrooms.
- Kitchens (see What is the best wallpaper for the kitchen: make a choice).
The unique effect of high cost of the material is given by silkiness and a pleasant gloss of the surface.
Tip: When pasting wall-paper of silk-screen printing in the kitchen, it must be taken into account that the moisture resistance of the material should be higher. In this case, you should choose a wallpaper with a matte or glossy flat surface, with a rough structure it will be difficult to clean and care for the wallpaper.
Sticking silk-screen printing in the bedroom, can be done with canvases of any thickness and density, they do not have much significance. In the bedroom the wallpaper is not subjected to such intensive use as in the hallway or in the kitchen.
What are the benefits of silk screen wallpaper?
The features of silk-screen printing determine the benefits of wallpaper from this material.
These include:
- Safety for humans and animals.
- They do not emit harmful substances for people, they are not toxic.
- They are odorless.
- Easy to clean and can be cleaned with a dry and damp cloth.
- Service life is up to 15 years.
- Outstanding appearance.
In addition to the advantages of silk-screen wallpaper, there are some disadvantages:
- They need a thorough and impeccable preparation of the foundation before gluing it to the walls, this is due to the fact that the wallpaper is quite thin.
- The material does not breathe.
- When burned, they are capable of releasing toxic substances.
Quite thin wallpaper after gluing on curves or poorly prepared walls will reveal all the defects of the walls.
Tip: A chic and expensive interior will be created by silk-screen wallpapers after pasting by a master and the most thorough preparation of the wall. In this case, the canvas should be glued strictly vertically using a quality level, preferably laser, or plumb.
Silk-screen wallpapers are chosen so that they are in harmony with other elements of the room’s interior. It is difficult to choose the typical furniture for the room (see Selection of furniture for the color of wallpaper: professional advice) When purchasing these luxurious wallpapers, preference should be given to quality materials from a trusted and reliable manufacturer.
How to stick silk-screen printing on the walls
The work execution instruction offers:
- Choose the right glue for the base material of the wallpaper.
- The coating dries quickly enough.
Tip: To avoid problems when pasting such wallpapers, special attention should be paid to their quality. If the manufacturer saves on the top coating, the material will lose its elasticity and will be poorly saturated with glue. Both coating layers should react equally to moisture and mechanical stress.
- All the required tools and materials are prepared:
- putty;
- primer;
- special glue;
- spatulas of different widths;
- stationery knife and glue for sealing joints.
- Walls are prepared for wallpapering:
- are aligned;
- putty;
- primed.
This will allow after applying the material to avoid the presence of visible wall defects and blistering of paintings:
- Wallpapering starts from the side of the windows to the door. In this case, the joints will be less noticeable.
- The vertical angle between the wall and the window should be perfectly even, which is controlled by the slope. When deviating from perpendicularity, a plumb line should be noted, which must be done when gluing all panels.
- Wallpaper is applied to the corner, measured length.
- According to the marks, a piece of wallpaper is cut off and smeared with glue.
- The sheet is left to soak for several minutes.
- The canvas is applied to the wall and a special roller made of rubber, leveled from the center of the sheet to the edges.
- The corner gap between the wall and the window is sealed.
Tip: If the sheets are overlapped, you need to use a clerical knife to draw a vertical strip under the ruler so that both sheets are cut at once. Excess pieces of wallpaper are removed.
Thus, the wallpaper is glued around the entire perimeter of the room. The edges of the wallpaper, so that they do not move away, can be treated at the joints with a special adhesive for the seams and make a paper backing.
Do not forget that silk-screen printing wallpapers should be in good harmony with the entire decoration of the room:
- The furniture.
- Coating on the floor.
- The ceiling.
All interior details must match the chic environment. Best of all, expensive furniture used in the palaces of French kings in the 16-17th centuries is suitable for this. How to choose the right interior for silkscreen wallpaper will help the video.
