Fabric Wallpaper

What Fabric Wallpaper Is and Why It Works

Fabric wallpaper is a mural that prints the look of cloth on your wall. Linen weave, raw silk, grasscloth, velvet, boucle. You get the warmth of a textile without the cost or the upkeep. Giffywalls prints each design to the exact size of your wall.

We have printed these murals for bedrooms, dining rooms and quiet home offices across the country. Buyers ask us the same thing first. Does it look printed up close? At full scale it does not. The weave is shot in fine detail, and the shadow in it is what sells the effect.

Why a Woven Look Softens a Room

Hard rooms are the problem this solves. Tile, glass, plaster and paint all bounce sound and light around. A woven print takes the edge off both. The wall reads warm even though nothing about it has changed.

It is also the quietest way to add pattern. There is no motif to date, no repeat to line up by eye. Just texture. That is why it works in a room you want to feel finished rather than decorated.

Where Fabric Wallpaper Works Best

Bedrooms

A linen or silk weave behind the bed is a soft, quiet backdrop. It flatters bedding rather than competing with it. Keep the tone within a shade or two of your walls and the room feels layered.

Dining Rooms

Grasscloth and raw silk come alive under lamps at night. The light rakes across the weave and the wall shifts as you move. Pair it with dark wood and brass.

Living Rooms and Studies

A woven ground is the perfect wall for art. Frames sit against it without a fight. Our textured wallpaper range covers the same ground in other materials.

Styles in This Collection

There is more here than plain weave. You will find linen and jute grounds, grasscloth, silk sheen, velvet depth, boucle loops, denim, canvas and woven stripes. Some are flat and quiet. Others have real shadow in them. The loose, natural weaves sit close to our boho wallpaper designs in feel.

Colors to Build Around

Keep the palette tight and let the texture speak. Oatmeal, sand, bone and warm white are the core tones, and they run right through our neutral wallpaper range. Soft gray suits a modern room. Deep green, navy or clay turn the same weave into something richer. Oak, cane, stone and brass all sit beside it easily. Skip a busy patterned rug, since the wall is already the texture in the room.

Where It Beats a Plain Painted Wall

Two places in particular. First, a big blank wall. Paint on a wide expanse can look empty, and a weave gives your eye something to hold without adding a pattern. Second, a rough wall. The printed texture hides small bumps in the plaster that flat paint would show up under side light.

It is also the safe pick when the rest of the room is already busy. A patterned sofa and a woven wall get along fine. A patterned sofa and a floral wall do not.

Sizing, Finish and Fitting

Send us the width and the height of your wall. We scale the design to match, so the weave runs true from corner to corner. Panels arrive numbered with hanging notes in the box. Pick peel and stick for a removable wallpaper finish that lifts off without taking the paint. That suits a rental or a room you plan to change. Pick paste-the-wall if the room is staying as it is. Order a sample if you can, because a weave is one of the few things a screen cannot really show you. Shipping is free on every order.