One thing that's slowly dawned on me as it comes closer to applying the ink is the water-based textures. In my experiments some were effective, some were duds but it was only a matter of chance if they turned out looking good. I've been doing further experiments with the curtains in mind and I'm liking the results, I am also learning to control the outcome better. I'm also pretty much ready to do the wall paper.
I've tried different patterns but like this one best, though the details not very visible through the cotton paper so I altered the colour and contrast in photo editor before putting it into photoshop
Then it was just a case of aligning the pattern
inverted it so I could test out which was gonna work best. The original one works best, it's darker overall and as the pointillism on the carpet will be fairly light and I want the piece to piece to have a lot of contrast I'm gonna go for the darker one. This could make the balance a bit more top heavy but there isn't a great deal of wall paper visible anyway. Only thing is the wall paper as is, is too big. So readdressed this in Photoshop.
All set to go.

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