Ceiling - Plaster texture

[kp4]

Hello

Does anyone know if this is an 'orange' peel plaster technique? Or, how is it done? (by a roller, spray gun or any other tool? - I've found too many varieties online and it is very confusing for someone like me = no experience)

I need to do some fixing and would love to match the texture to be the same.

The texture is very soft, the photo is a close up.

Thank you in advance.

Kat

[KidKruger]

looks like roller to my untrained eye, especially if older.

[kp4]

Thank you KidKruger. Yes, it is an older plaster.

Kat

[malumbu]

Article about doing this https://modernize.com/homeowner-resources/other/creating-orange-peel-textured-wall

But why? This reminds me of non-residential buildings - schools, offices, stairwells. Austere, institutional, not very welcoming.

[johnie]

That looks like woodchip paper to me

[kp4]

Thank you Johnie

It is possible re woodchip paper as I can see the glued parts.

Kat

[Sue]

johnie Wrote:

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> That looks like woodchip paper to me

And to me.

[Seabag]

It looks like Anaglypta (blown pattern paper) with many coats of what looks like old vinyl silk paint covering it

You can still buy it

https://www.gowallpaper.co.uk/anaglypta-original-arundel.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvZiP64_t7gIVAmHmCh2I4w3WEAkYAiABEgJ9CvD_BwE#utm_source=google_shopping

[Seabag]

However, they made 100?s of patterns and textures. This may we?ll be discontinued.

I used to be a decorator, I?ve seen lots of these type of papers. What period is the house ? 50?s -70?s ?

At a push I thought it might be Artex, but it?s to soft a pattern/texture I think.

Best of luck with what?re you choose to do.

[malumbu]

Loved Anaglypta - great to hang and looked the biz under chair rails in Victorian and Edwardian houses. Do your lounge in it and you could make it look like a pub. Whatever a pub may be??

[Seabag]

I used to hang a lot of Anaglypta in pubs, then glaze it in dark ?nicotine? brown for that old boozer effect.

Happy days.

[malumbu]

Nicotine coloured paint goes without saying. We converted a toilet where staff smoked to a lab in one company and cleaned the windows with solvent - lots of brown gunk. Yuk