Template Film

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Established in 2017, we supply many of the leading Stonemasonry Contractors and Cathedrals in the UK, and some overseas, 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, material with a high tear & puncture resistance, making it durable, is required. Fabrication in crafts such as glaziers, boatbuilders, set makers, musical instrument makers, ornamental plasterers and any other craftspeople who require a material of this type for making templates.

The semi-rigid but flexible nature of this film allows you to place it around a curved surface to create the profile to your desired shape, without stretching or shrinking, giving it a multitude of applications.

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.

*‘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

  • It is translucent, enabling visibility of marking up & tracing of stonework or similar objects where tracing properties are required
  • Its qualities of being water, fat & oil resistant and of a robust nature with high tear and puncture resistance makes it durable and ideally suitable for harsh environments such as the stonemasons workshop or similar
  • It is of a semi-rigid nature, so is flexible but also holds it’s shape
  • It has a matt finish on the external surface and can easily be written on with a permanent marker
  • It’s 250 microns (0.25mm) thick, and can easily be cut to shape with a pair of scissors or a sharp knife
  • It can be used in conjunction with a graphics plotter enabling efficient & accurate plotting of templates from CAD files, saving significant amounts of time compared with hand produced templates.

Our film has also been used for film and stage sets, including by a production company working on a legendary and long-standing TV series. It also has uses in car restoration and in the construction industry generally, leadwork, glazing and building conservation.

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