Wood Grain is exactly what it says, drawn by hand rather than scanned: the figure of sawn timber, the long parallel lines, the knots, the places where the grain swirls round a defect, rendered as a wallpaper motif with an industrial rather than a rustic edge. It does not attempt to pass as wood. It is a drawing of wood, and it stays a drawing.
That distinction is what makes it usable. A photographic timber paper is always slightly uncomfortable, because the eye catches the repeat and the illusion fails. Here the hand is visible in every line, so the design reads as a graphic texture with a vertical emphasis, and the wall gains height and grain without pretending to be panelling.
It hangs with a half drop on a 0.53 m roll, 10.05 m long, with a 53 cm repeat, and the half drop is doing something specific: it offsets the grain from one length to the next so no continuous vertical seam forms where two drops meet. Wood Grain belongs in a study, a boot room, a hall, a kitchen or a bar, and it sits well with steel, leather, dark paint and real timber, where it reads as a deliberate flattening rather than as a substitute.
