Wallpaper knife
Wallpaper knives , also known as knives , are used to split strips of wallpaper . They have a double-edged blade with a flat and a convex side. The wallpaper knife is used together with a wallpaper rail made of spring steel, which is attached to the wallpapering table. The steel rail is placed lengthways on the papering table so that it is exactly flush with the edge of the table, and is fastened there with adhesive tape. To split a strip of wallpaper, it is pasted and soaked and placed on the wallpapering table in such a way that the cut edge is exactly above the steel rail. The wallpaper knife is placed with the smooth side facing the steel rail and cuts the wallpaper with quick movements (blows) on the steel edge. Since the cut is made by shearing between the wallpaper knife and the steel edge, the blade of the wallpaper knife is not particularly sharp, similar to paper scissors .
The wallpaper knife was originally used to carve wallpaper around the edges. Until the beginning of the 1970s, the edges of the wallpaper were not printed or had no pattern. This 1.5 to 2 cm wide strip was removed ("hewn") with the wallpaper knife after pasting. Then the wallpaper could be glued to the wall according to a pattern or pattern.
The wallpaper knife is less suitable for cutting strips of wallpaper. In order to produce strips of the required length from a roll of wallpaper, the wallpaper is usually rolled out on the wallpapering table and torn off at a sharp edge. for this purpose there are appropriate tools, the wallpaper tear-offs. Particularly clean edges are not necessary because the wallpaper strips are first cut a little longer than necessary and only brought to the exact length when glued to the wall. This procedure considerably simplifies the precise cutting of the wallpaper strips.
Web links
- List of wallpapering tools at the German Wallpaper Institute