I usually love Serena & Lily papers, but was disappointed today to find an entire double-roll bolt with this printing defect. (enlarge the photo if you need to)
At first, I thought it would look OK on the wall. But different areas of the bolt had more visible smudges, so I had to discard the whole thing.
Luckily, because of the pattern match and the height of the wall, I was able to get an extra strip out of the remaining good bolts, so I had enough to finish the project (barely).
The smudges you see are ink from the manufacturer’s printing process. They appeared on both the right and left side of this strip of wallpaper.
It was just by chance that I saw this before I got it to the wall (because normally you’re looking at the back of the strip while you are pasting it).
There was another, faint, thumb-sized smudge on the outer 3″ of another strip. Even though it was faint, it would have stood out against this very plain background.
Again, lucky that I spotted it before pasting, and was able to save the strip by plotting to use it where the defect would be cut off by the door frame.
The manufacturer is Thibaut, one of my favorite wallpaper brands. Issues like this are rare with Thibaut.
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This smudge goes all the way across the back of this strip of wallpaper.
I don’t know what it is from, and I worry that it might be ink or some other substance that could bleed through to the front of the paper, so I had to throw the strip away.
A good reason to always buy a little extra.
The manufacturer is Serena & Lily.
