Damask Wallpaper: Timeless Elegance, Made in Your Colour Way
The Most Elegant Pattern in the Room
Few patterns carry a room the way damask does. That graceful, symmetrical motif — scrolling foliage, stylised flowers and ornamental flourishes, traditionally set tone-on-tone — has signalled elegance for centuries, from grand drawing rooms to panelled libraries. Damask wallpaper brings a wall depth, formality and a quiet sense of occasion, and it does it without ever shouting. It's the pattern you choose when you want a room to feel considered, gracious and beautifully finished.
At Claret & Key, every damask is drawn by our own designers and printed to order in your chosen colourway, so the version on your wall is the one you chose — your scale, your shade, made especially for you in our Cheshire studio.
What makes a damask
The defining quality of a damask is its play of light. Classic damask is worked tone-on-tone — a single colour in two finishes or shades — so the pattern reveals itself as the light shifts across it, subtle from one angle and rich from another. That restraint is exactly what gives damask its air of understated luxury; the motif is ornate, but the effect is calm.
Within that, there's real range. A traditional damask feels stately and heritage-led. A modern damask keeps the motif but pares back the palette for a cleaner, contemporary look. And a silk-effect damask leans into that gentle sheen for a softer, more tactile finish. Because we print to order, you decide where on that spectrum yours sits.
Choosing your colour
Damask rewards a considered colourway, and printing to order means the choice is entirely yours. A blue damask feels fresh and classic; a green damask brings a handsome, natural depth; a red or claret damask is rich, warm and traditional; a soft pink damask adds warmth without weight; and a gold or metallic damask brings the light and glamour damask is famous for. Whatever you choose, it's printed in your shade rather than pulled from a fixed range.
Where damask works
Damask suits the rooms you want to feel gracious. In a living room, it brings a settled elegance, especially on a chimney breast or a single wall. In a bedroom, a soft tonal damask feels restful and quietly luxurious. A hallway or dining room takes damask's sense of occasion beautifully, and a period property is its natural home, honouring the proportions of an older room. For real drama, a deeper damask on a feature wall makes an unforgettable focal point.
Your damask, your way
Every design comes in three finishes. Traditional (150gsm, super-matte) is the refined, paste-the-wall classic. Heavy-Grade (300gsm, with a subtle sand texture) stands up to hallways and busy rooms. And Removable peel-and-stick (180gsm) gives you the same design with none of the commitment — ideal for renters, or a room you like to restyle. All are printed to order on FSC-approved, PVC- and VOC-free paper, so they're kinder to the planet and safe for any room in the house.
Damask shifts beautifully with the light, so order a sample and see your colourway in the room before you commit.
This wallpaper is just gorgeous! I used the one that requires glue and it was super easy to i stall. One roll was enough for a 6’ wide laundry closet with 7’5” ceilings. Even on our orange peel walls it set beautifully. I did this behind our new washer dryer set up in our laundry closet with white oak cabinets and it’s perfect! Highly recommend!
Truly love this wallpaper. Looks amazing in both our bathroom (the original project) and as an accent in the back of a cabinet (what we did with the extra). Everyone who sees it comments on how classy and beautiful it is. For these reasons five stars!
However I do want to call out two concerns:
1. The online "calculator" on the site recommend nine roles, which seemed excessive for our less than 100 sq ft bathroom. I even reached out to support to double check and they said to go by the calculator. I'm glad I didn't because I ended up ordering five roles and only needing 4. I will say returning the 5th role was a pretty smooth process, so kudus to Claret and Key for that.
2. Strangely the "autumn" color with pale nutmeg background reads more green than brown in certain light. With bright overhead light it comes across as the soft brown we intended, but in natural light it reads much more green. Not anything to terrible just unexpected.
Beautiful paper! Our decorator commented on its quality and how nice and easy it was to work with compared to other wallpaper he had used in the past. Thank you.
So in love with this wallpaper. We wanted a cosy cottage bedroom vibe so we chose the Eloise. It’s such a pretty design that completely transformed the space. The wallpaper is such great quality .We have very uneven walls but didn’t have any issues. Hanging it was a joy. Highly recommend.
We used Blanche to paper some built in wardrobes that double up as room dividers. It was brilliant to be able to sample several background colour options and we are delighted with the finished result
Thank you. Fabulous Wallpaper.
Great quality paper and easy to hang.
The design is so rich in colour and adds such decadence to my dressing area. Now for the finishing touches.
Poor customer service - rolls are only available as one off 10m runs, so if you need 11m.. unfortunately you’ll be paying double for a second roll! Unless your walls are 8m or less, I’d avoid. Wrongly assumed Claret & Key would be slightly more compassionate about the situation and even help with a slightly discounted second roll, considering we only needed 1m. How wrong we were!
Store owner replied:
Hi Emily,
I'm sorry to hear that you are disappointed with the service.
We sell our wallpaper by the roll, and we are unable to manufacture shorter rolls. This will be the same for most manufacturers as 10m rolls are standard, and most rooms require more than 1 roll to complete the job.
Thanks,
Claret & Key
I really loved this paper and thought it would look nice in my attic space. Delighted with the end result. Great service, excellent quality of paper and it really transforms the room. The eves are very low so the space was not utilised so making a feature with the wallpaper has created a cosy space to relax in. Thank you. M
Love this wallpaper. It’s just enough to show a statement but not so loud that it overpowers the space. Being able to pick the color is such a great thing also. You’re not stuck with 5 options so it can match your style and colors of your space. Would recommend to anyone looking for wallpaper. Very happy and my installer said its super easy to install this pattern.
This wallpaper is thick and sturdy. It’s very easy to work with and easy to apply. It was my first time hanging wallpaper and this paper was very forgiving. Great product!
