Hang Fabric On Wall With Liquid Starch

Make sure wall is clean and free from any nails or screws.

Hang fabric on wall with liquid starch.

Patch any holes and remove outlet and. Trim the sheet to your required length. Cover the wall but not so much that it is dripping. Apply a light layer of liquid starch to the walls using a roller.

Using liquid starch to hang fabric can get messy. Pour the liquid starch into a paint tray and run the roller. Take the roller and cover the wall where the fabric will be hung. I washed and dried the fabric first for shrinkage.

Place a drop cloth over the floor where you will be working. Pour some liquid starch in a cup dip a brush in and then paint it all over the wall you re going to cover. Remove fabric s raw edges using scissors or a rotary cutter cutting mat and a yardstick or. Press a piece of fabric against the wall then paint more liquid starch over that.

Before adding the liquid starch shut off any electrical outlets in the room. Pressed it and trimmed the edges. Trim edges and cut fabric. Instead of using wallpaper paste i used liquid starch and a tiny bit of water.

Pour the liquid starch into the tray and cover the roller in starch. Next day i poured the starch in a tray that is used for prepasted wallpaper and accoridian folded the fabric into it. Smooth the fabric down to. Use a paint roller to cover the wall with liquid starch.

Standing on a ladder un pin a small section from the top of the leftmost fabric panel on the wall then roll on liquid starch to the exposed section of the wall in a thin layer. Mushed it around a little and then put it on the wall. Cover the wall but not so much that it is dripping. Before purchasing your fabric measure out the space you re going to be covering to determine just how much fabric.

Adhering the fabric to the wall 1. Keep working one sheet at a time following the same steps over and over. Trim the paper to the beginning of the pattern repeat. Before adding the liquid starch shut off any electrical outlets in the room.

Take the roller and cover the wall where the fabric will be hung. Roll starch onto. After pre washing the fabric don t worry if it gets wrinkled cut off the selvage edge with nice sharp scissors to. Attach the sheet of paper to the wall matching up the vertical.

This next step can be done a few. I rolled the painted wall with the liquid starch spread the damp washed fabric on the wall and smoothed it out not heavy cut it a little larger than needed to begin with.