Template Film
Established in 2017, we supply many of the leading Stonemasonry Contractors and Cathedrals in the UK with high quality rolls of translucent PVC film for their templating.
Applications for Our PVC Template Film
Our high-quality PVC template film is widely used in the stonemasonry industry but can also be used for any situation where a semi-rigid, but flexible template material is required, such as glaziers, boatbuilders, set makers, musical instrument makers, ornamental plasterers and any other craftspeople who need semi-rigid, but flexible materials for making templates.
Sometimes referred to as template plastic, template paper, template sheet, template PVC, template film or acetate paper, this film can be used as an effective alternative to Mylar®* as a template material.
The semi-rigid nature of this film allows you to fold it around a curved surface to create the profile to your desired shape, without stretching or shrinking, giving it a multitude of applications.
*‘Mylar’ is a registered trademark of the DuPont Teijin Corporation.
What is a template?
- a shaped piece of rigid or semi-rigid material used as a pattern for processes such as cutting out, shaping, or drilling.
- A template is a form, mould or pattern used as a guide to make something.
Benefits of Our PVC Film
- Its qualities of being water, fat & oil resistant and of a semi-rigid nature, makes it durable and ideally suitable for harsh environments such as the stonemasons workshop or similar
- It has a matt finish on the external surface and can easily be written on with a permanent marker
- It is translucent, enabling visibility of marking up & tracing of stonework
- It’s 250 microns (0.25mm) thick, and can easily be cut to shape with a pair of scissors or a sharp knife
- It’s relatively light and semi-rigid so is durable but flexible, enabling tracing of on-site details
- It can be used in conjunction with a graphics plotter enabling time efficient and accurate plotting of templates from CAD files compared to hand drawing, with less waste
- It’s durable, it can be used multiple times