I am a child of the paint effect generation and my Mum’s passion for rag rolling and scumble glazing was what sparked my passion for interiors in the first place. So when photographer Clare Bosanquet dropped me an email about her traditional Romanian paint pattern rollers, I was intrigued.
Clare stumbled across these patterned rollers in a Romanian market, where they’ve been used as a traditional alternative to wallpapers for around 150 years. She’s updated the patterns to suit modern tastes and adapted the roller designs for use on fabric or walls.
I really love this design with its little deer family. Clare’s decorated her whole Welsh cottage using her product and it looks great – and at £15 for each roller design they’re a bargain compared to designer wallpaper… although like wallpapering I bet there’s a knack to getting it right!
Interesting, don’t you think? Pop over to The Painted House for more ideas and tips or if you’re ready to have a go yourself, visit Clare’s Etsy shop.
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You should have a look at http://www.strukturwalzen.de – the site is in german but worth a look – this guy has an archive with over 3000 historic rolls from all over the world … crazy ;o)
Lovely – even if you’re not confident at getting the lines straight they would look good just as a panel of pattern either centrally or down one side of a feature wall!
These are amazing! (As are the gorgeous rooms in the photographs. Do you think if I bought one of these rollers my house would magically get that nice?!)
I’ve scraped too much wallpaper to ever do that again – but these I would definitely try!
Yeah, love these too! I think I might definitely give it a try!
Beautiful! So much better than that tired old rag rolling effect!
love these! I’m totally useless at doing things in straight lines so probably not for me but the idea ia brilliant and there’s some great designs in that shop!