I just purchased velvet to put on my screen wall. The wall is 15' w x 8' high. I have read that many have used velvet but not many on how they have attached it. I thought about using staples, or possible trim but not really sure the best way to go about it. Anyone?

Darin

Darin

Post a pic of your screen wall and point out where you plan to use the velvet. I think then we will get a better idea of just what your going to cover

Don't have access to a camera until tomorrow... I am installing a fixed screen next week. It will be a Carada 2.35 52 x 122. Complete light controlled room. I'll try to post a pic tomorrow, but hopefully the above info is helpful. Would large staples be visible? I was thinking the use of staples might be difficult to get the velvet to lay flat without wrinkling...

Darin

Are you covering the whole wall or just around the screen. A pic will really help everyone see exactly what you’re trying to do and then give you suggestions on how it mite be done :)

Yep. The entire wall. But the screen is very large at a bit over 10 ft wide and almost 4 1/2 feet high with the screen border. I am planning on the screen being about a foot down from the ceiling. Right now I have my 92in wide 16:9 screen up right now so I am not sure a pic with that screen would be of much help.

Darin

I would wrap the velvet around plywood panels and then nail them to the wall with an air nailer. You can shoot 18 gauge nails through the velvet and you won't see any nail holes at all. I doubt that there's a really "clean" way to do the whole front wall in velvet otherwise, because you will see staples if you just staple the velvet straight to the wall.

Be sure you put it up with the nap running upside down. It absorbs more light that way.
You can make and wrap frames and put them up pulling the velvet to the back and stapling, Since you probably want to acoustically treat the screen wall anyway this would be a good way to do it. I made a faux wall for my AT screen so for that I pulled the velvet to the back of the framing but that does not sound like it would work for you. I also did all my sound treatments in Velvet.

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McCall, thanks for the explanation, that is exactly what I am planning on doing. I am going to build my false wall, wrap it in velvet and then put it in place allowing for the staples to be behind the wall and a nice smooth wrap around the edges.

You mention the nap of the velvet... I was out on the weekend walking through numerous fabric stores (There is an area I live close to that has about 8 - 10 fabric store all within a block or two of each other) and really noticed that the nap was important with the velvet, you could have the velvet running one way and it would look ok, but then when you turned it the right way and it was just so much better.

You say upside down though... I thought it was looking blackest when the nape was running down, meaning if I ran my hand against it the fibres would go with my hand? Am I getting my ups and downs wrong? Which way do you recommend, the direction that appears the darkest, or the opposite?

Yes you are normally the nap would run so that if you ran your hand down it it would be smooth. So upside down means that if you run your hand down you meet resistance.
also I used Stretch velvet for all of my uses it is more AT and much easier to work with.

Thanks for all of the ideas. It will help a lot.

Darin