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Anyone know of a similarlly printed fabric for those of us who can't wallpaper our rentals? Been toying with the idea of using starch/fabric...

Marimekko has some great fabrics that we've (and many others) used to create oversized graphic tree wall hangings.

-kellen

You can buy quite a few of the amazing colors of the Cole and Son's birch tree wallpaper through this English site. No interior designer needed. About 100 pounds a role. Gorgeous! Check out some of the other Cole and Sons papers as well.

http://www.sandersonfabrics.co.uk/acatalog/Cole_and_Son_-_New_Contemporary_Collection_2_Wallpap.html

There's a whole thread about this paper by someone who's trying to install it on the Chicago AT site btw. Alina has beaten me to one of my favorite referral links for Woods, but just wanted to point out that it's actually under 30 pounds a roll, with discounts for quantity.

you can find it at: cole&son through leeJofa.com

this is soooo nice but doesn't repeat!

hmmm ... it's difficult to figure out the instalation strategy and potential limitations. it comes in 10m x 52cm rolls and states "pattern repeat is 72cm - half drop" how does this look on a whole wall?

Someone on Small Space Big Style had this paper on a whole bedroom and it looked great! I don't remember which episode, though.

The Small Space Big, Style episode is #403.

ms, i've been happy with my purchases from textile arts, i think they are in long island:

http://store.txtlart.com/walhankit1.html

The "72cm drop" means that the repeatable part of the pattern is 72 cm lower on the right than it is on the left. If you look at the picture above, you will see exactly what I mean. The branch goes off the paper to the left. It re-enters on the right, but it is lower than where it went off the paper on the left. This helps to break up the design so you don't have a repeat of trees every 52cm, but instead the repeat on an 8ft wall (240cm) will occur almost every six feet instead of every foot and a half.

Oh....and you will definitely want to order more paper than you would think, and more paper than most guides recommend for overordering when you wallpaper. For every ten feet of horizontal wall almost 4.25 meters of roll to waste just in getting the pattern to line up. Or conversely, you will lose an entire roll of paper to waste every 23.6 feet of horizontal wall space....assuming that you don't already lose paper because what is left on the roll is not enough to make an entire panel from floor to ceiling.

I saw this wallpaper used on large room setting at an Ikea I helped set up in Norway last spring. It was actually the magenta/black version and it looked incredible.

I saw this wallpaper at a restaurant called Aspen on West 22nd.
It really caught my attention, looks great!
I have been looking for it since I saw it. You can see some pics on their website.
www.aspen-nyc.com

wow melissa - i just checked out aspen - what a stunner!

i'm bookmarking this for my winter trip to nyc - looks like a great place. is it? or all looks?

holly

I have been dying for this paper too -- but like ms (who posted above), I crave fabric in this pattern even more. there should be a law that no wallpaper can be produced without fabric, too...

That wallpaper was also shown to great effect in Jane and Darko's Smallest Coolest entry, also recently featured in "O at Home."

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/small-cool-2006-entries/finalist-4-jane-darkos-cozy-thicket-007907

I have these at home:

http://www.pillowsandthrows.com/afpin000.html

http://www.pillowsandthrows.com/afbit381.html

probably super expensive, but i love these:

http://www.naturadesignsolutions.com/index1.html

Just a suggestion... If you have a good digital SLR camera with over 10M Pixels, go to central park or any park/mountain and take pictures of trees with simple and bright background. Now it's good time. because most of tree are bare. Take with variety of angles. Open with PhotoShop and convert to B/W picture. make high contrast as much as you like so that you can get nice shape of trees. Decide your picture size. Keep 150 dpi at least. Go to digital output store and ask them to make a large format print. Width is limited by printer size but length can be really long.

Ooohh.. i've seen these around. I'm all for bringing nature into the house. My problem is I dont like repetition. MN's solution is great - Kinkos or any other copy place can make a large format print quickly and easily.

The natura option is nice but probably very very expensive - and for that price you may as well find a good mural artist.

No one answered the fabric question!! I would love to use this as shower curtain fabric. My bathroom is crying out for it to go with my grey grasscloth wallpaper. Does any one have any grey/white or black/white options as lovely as the wallpaper in a fabric rendition? I looked at Marimeko- but nothing came close.

Thanks.

When I was growing up in the suburbs in the 70's, my mother hired a decorator from a local department store who must have had a killer eye - our living room features an original Arco lamp and a Kagan snail table, all on top of a huge white shag carpet.

She took a B&W picture of the woods outside our house during the fall (the house is surround by 30-foot tall trees), had it blown up and printed on canvas, and hung it in our stairwell area, which probably has a 15 foot tall ceiling. The enlargement made it practically end up pixellated, for an effect that was vaguely Pop Art.

It was awesome! And definitely worth repeating, but use film, not a digital camera, for the best effect. Hmm - remembering this hanging (which my mother long since put in the attic) makes me realize exactly why I put Woods in my dining area.

Where o Where is the fantastic canvas work? Do you have any pictures? It sounds fun.

I Like it

But the nature scene isn't really my THING
Probably cuz I Live in South Africa
Everyone here is nature CRAZY.

aww p(too), you remember us ;)

Jnae--

I totally plugged your spread in O at Home here when I spied it. Congrats... the spread was great, article nicely put together.

If you are still interested in purchasing the fabric that looks just like the woods pattern by Cole and Son, I sell it. I also sell all of the Cole and Son Papers at my store in Chicago called Verde Design Studio.

I bought my Cole and Son's paper online. Lee Joffa is a trade-only store. Sanderson was more expensive than some of the others but check them all. try fabricsandpapers.com and interiors-europe.co.uk. SO YOU KNOW-- Cole and Son's requires the Cole Tub Paste for hanging. I didn't know that so I ordered a pre mixed wheat paste equivalent called GH-34 by Roman Adhesives. My contractor wouldn't touch it until I got that recommendation- it would've ruined the paper.

In response to an earlier thread - the Woods paper does have a repaeat. I have just hung one wall of my study with the foil version (black trees on a reflective background) and it was amazingly easy - just make sure your wall is in good order before hanging. I ordered direct from cole and son and found that the service was what you would expect from her majesties wallpaper supplier!

By the way, the NATURA murals are custon designed by artist, Jason Gaillard. They are hand-painted, oil on canvas, but now are offered as digital reproductions as well. The digital repros are much less expensive than the hand-painted versions and are non repeat!!!! Check out the website, http://www.naturadesignsolutions.com/index1.html

I just posted the birch tree Cole & Son paper in the classified section if anyone is interested.
I have two rolls with about 60% left on the roll from my installation.
cheers,
ao

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I am the sales manager for Cole & Son. If any one has any questions about our wallpaper - please do contact me.
By the way - the Woods paper has a half drop repeat of about 15 inches and we do an exact matching fabric printed on a simple cotton.

Try fabricsandpapers.com which not only has this Cole & Son wallaper but some other interseting designs by Neisha Crosland, Zoffany, Sanderson and Lewis and Wood.

www.fabricsandpapers.com

For anyone interested try www.tapetprama.se , it's a swedish website with an english translation. It has a huge selection of new and vintage wall papers and so matching fabrics too (including woods).

IKEA has Fabric panels that are scrim-like with this birch print. I don't have an image of it but it's quite similar, and looks for water-colory bc it's dye submersion instead of printing.

I found a link on the IKEA website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40122212

Rep from Lee Jofa recommended Roman's Pro-838 paste. Has anyone successfully used this, or better to stick with the wheat paste?

fabric is available from this site:
http://www.sandersonfabrics.co.uk/acatalog/Cole_and_Son_-_Fabrics.html

Ty Pennington has a new book out, "Good Design Can Change Your Life". He shows a room using this paper to which he added individual black Raven cutouts perched on some of the branches (related to some homeowner family lore, apparantly.) So the paper can be customized in interesting ways. I can envision adding red cardinals with Post-It adhesive (removable) for Christmas, for example.

Has anyone seen modern fabric printed with trees or branches for draperies?