Table of Contents
How do you calculate a half drop repeat pattern?
The half drop pattern is half of a vertical repeat up or down from one selvedge to the other. Please remember this means buyin extra fabric and take extra care when cutting. For half drop repeats, calculate the cut drop. Then add one extra half of the 40″ repeat to the final quantity.
What is half drop pattern match?
A half-drop match is a straight match that has been split in half. You’ll need to lay out the room and determine which strips will go where ahead of time. Multiple drop match: A multiple drop match is the most complex pattern match. It can take four or more strips to repeat the vertical design.
What is a half drop design?
Half-drop patterns are made by dropping every second line of motifs down a half-length height of the motif. The leaf-shaped motif is arranged so that alternate columns are staggered vertically by half the height of the motif. The pattern is regular but feels more varied than a block repeat.
What is a half drop?
A half drop is paper that has a pattern that shifts exactly half the length of the pattern. Measure out the length you need on the first roll, plus your little bit of surplus for, then line up your second roll to match the pattern of the first, and cut so that both rolls are the same length.
What is a half drop print?
In a half drop repeat, the artwork is repeated along horizontal and vertical lines just like in a full drop repeat. This time, however, the horizontal repeat is staggered. The motif repeats perfectly on the vertical line but then drops exactly half of the vertical repeat along the horizontal line.
How do you put wallpaper on an uneven wall?
Wallpapering directly over textured walls will result in some very unattractive, bumpy wallpaper. The best way to smooth out your wall is by skimming it with a joint compound. If done right, this step will fill in the all the unevenness in the wall, creating a nice smooth surface your wallpaper can adhere too.
What happens if you overlap wallpaper?
Overlap to ensure the first run is plumb When starting from an inside corner, allow at least 1/8 in. overlap on wallpaper from the adjacent wall. This lets you hang the paper plumb, regardless of how plumb the corner is. Corners are rarely perfectly straight.
What does it mean to have a half drop pattern?
If you’re looking at curtain fabric in the shop, you might sometimes notice a fabric labelled as having a half drop repeat, half repeat or half drop pattern. This means that every other repeat of the pattern across the width is dropped halfway down from the previous one.
Can you make curtains with a half drop pattern?
If you’re making curtains with a half drop pattern repeat, you’ll need to be more careful if you’re joining widths together. This is because with a half drop repeat, you won’t be able to match the pattern directly across the width, as you would with most fabrics.
When to repeat a half drop of fabric?
After joining the drops trim the extra half pattern repeat off the end of the last odd drop. This method rounds the fabric cut drop up to the nearest half pattern repeat so is the best method when the cut drop is up to half way into the last pattern repeat.
How to make a half drop repeat pattern in Photoshop?
Right click and select “Duplicate Layer”. Click ok. You can see that there are now two layers, one on top of the other. Click on the top layer in the layers palette to select it. From the main menu: Filter > Other > Offset The original image is 200px wide by 200px height so to create a half-drop repeat,…