Sint-Maria-Latem, Belgium
Wallpaper
made by hand.
Nothing else.
Every roll printed in our atelier using techniques that predate the machine age. Blockprint, linocut, dominoté, three crafts, one obsession with materials that are honest, tactile, and made to last.
- MADE TO MEASURE
- HANDPRINTED IN BELGIUM
- PEARWOOD BLOCKS
- NO ACRYLICS
- NO TOXIC PIGMENTS
- MADE TO MEASURE
- 3 HISTORIC TECHNIQUES
- HERITAGE REMAKING
- MADE TO MEASURE - HANDPRINTED IN BELGIUM - PEARWOOD BLOCKS - NO ACRYLICS - NO TOXIC PIGMENTS - MADE TO MEASURE - 3 HISTORIC TECHNIQUES - HERITAGE REMAKING
THE WORKSHOP
Crafts Belgium had lost.
We brought them back.
Until the mid-20th century, wallpaper in Belgium was printed by hand — block by block, colour by colour. When the last workshop closed, the knowledge went with it. Three years ago, Dimitri Vermeylen and Vicky Vermeire began rebuilding that knowledge from scratch: from archive documents, museum collections, and months of patient experiment in a workshop beside their home in Sint-Maria-Latem.
Today Atelier V.V. prints wallpaper using three historic techniques, blockprint, linocut, and dominoté. Each one made by hand. Each one using materials that are breathable, non-toxic, and made to last as long as the walls they cover.
Three techniques.
Each rooted in history. Each made entirely by hand.
I
Blockprint
PEARWOOD - DISTEMPER - PIGMENT
Pearwood blocks pressed into distemper paint made from chalk, animal glue, and non-toxic pigments. Colour by colour, layer by layer. The technique used since the 18th century to print wallpaper, and the one we use for both new contemporary designs and historically accurate heritage reconstructions.
II
Linocut
ARCHES - KRAFT - CRANFIELD INKS
Original patterns by Belgian printmaker Isabelle Dubois, printed on a century-old offset litho press with Cranfield artist inks. On cotton rag Arches or raw kraft paper. Custom patterns available on commission.
III
Dominoté
THE ORIGINAL WALLPAPER
Before wallpaper existed, there was dominoté , smallish decorative sheets, hand printed and sold by the page since 17th century France. We print ours on King Kong, our vintage proofing press, with water-based inks ground from natural pigments. The only thing we sell directly off the shelf.
Made without
compromise.
We don't use acrylics. We don't use toxic pigments. Our distemper is made from chalk, water, animal glue, and pigments chosen for safety as much as colour — historical earth minerals where they serve us, modern non-toxic alternatives where the old ones were harmful.
Our material
The papers
Cotton rag, unbleached kraft, and non-woven cellulose sourced from industrial waste streams.
Nothing that hurts
No acrylics, no toxic pigments, no film-forming binders. The wall breathes. So does the paper.
Making
Made to order
Printed to the exact dimensions you need. No overproduction, no excess stock, no waste rolls.
From A to Z
Hung directly on the wall or on linen, using traditional methods — including 19th century linen installation for heritage buildings
New
INTERIOR ARCHITECTS & PRIVATE CLIENTS
Contemporary interiors
New designs for new or old spaces. We work closely with interior architects and private clients to find the right technique, pattern, colour, and paper for each project. Nothing off the shelf.
EXPLORE CONTEMPORARY WORK
Heritage
HERITAGE ARCHITECTS, PRIVATE CLIENTS & CONSERVATORS
Heritage restoration
We reconstruct historic wallpapers from fragments, working with conservators and heritage architects, using period-accurate materials compatible with the buildings they return to.
EXPLORE HERITAGE WORK
Dimitri Vermeylen & Vicky Vermeire
The atelier is a workshop, not a factory.
Dimitri and Vicky met at the fine arts academy in Ghent, and arrived at wallpaper by different routes.
Dimitri spent years in business before returning to craft, first as a volunteer in the typography workshop at the Industriemuseum Ghent, where historical print processes began to feel less like the past and more like something worth continuing. The turning point came when they visited the wallpaper museum in Rixheim together, and stood in front of a printing technique that had all but disappeared from Belgium. What began as fascination became, quickly, a plan.
Vicky came to the atelier through books and objects, years working in bookshops and antique bookshops, a period studying paper restoration, and hand weaving. That knowledge stayed. She also oversaw the renovation of our house, which meant learning all there is to know to handle an old building from the inside out. When they started Atelier V.V., the paint process was hers from the first day.
Atelier V.V. started three years ago, in a workshop beside their home. They rebuilt the knowledge of this craft largely from scratch.
Artist collaborations
We print the work
of others too.
A growing line of blockprinted wallpaper made in collaboration with artists and designers who bring their own visual world to our press. Named editions, printed by hand, with both names on the roll.
Tinus Vermeersch
Available now
Isabelle Dubois
Coming soon
Available now
Veroniek De Leenheer
See it before
you decide.
Every pattern is available as a physical sample, a piece of the actual paper, printed in the actual technique, in the colour of your choice. We'd rather you held it in your hands than ordered from a screen.
Interior architects - contact us directly for project sample packs