About
A place where the credit travels with the picture
Muralry is a wallpaper catalogue built on one rule: it will not tell you something it does not know.
Wallpapers are the last place attribution survives. A picture gets saved, re-uploaded, cropped, reposted, and somewhere in the third or fourth hop the artist's name falls off. Nobody means for it to happen — the image travels well and the credit does not travel at all. Then the work belongs to everyone and to no one, and the person who made it is the only one who gets nothing out of it.
So the credit is built into the structure here rather than bolted on. A plate that names an artist names them because the database physically could not have stored it otherwise: creator, licence and a link back to the original are required columns, checked by the database itself. And a plate nobody could attribute is labelled artist unknown — plainly, on the picture — instead of being quietly passed off as unowned.
Nobody is making money here
There are no adverts, no subscription, no premium tier, no sponsored plates, and nothing for sale. Your attention is not the product and neither is your data — nothing is sold to anyone, because there is no one to sell it to and no interest in finding them.
The costs are a domain name and a server that was already running. That is the whole budget. If it ever stops being true — if hosting outgrows a hobby — it will be said here plainly, before anything changes, and not discovered by finding an advert where a picture used to be.
What "safe" actually means
It is easy to say a site is safe for artists. These are the specific things that make it true, each of which is a thing the software does:
- Your work comes down on request. No proof of ownership, no explanation, no argument, no form. One line to takedown@muralry.com and it is gone, usually the same day.
- Once down, it stays down. Removal fingerprints the file so it cannot be re-added — including a rescaled or re-encoded copy by somebody who meant no harm. You should have to ask once.
- You can claim your name. If your work is here credited to you, the profile is yours to take over, and you decide how you are described and where you link.
- No machine-generated images. Diffusion-model output is refused at every entrance. This is a catalogue of work a person made.
- The licence is yours to choose, stated as data rather than as small print, so anyone downloading can see exactly what they may do with it before they do it.
And for everyone else
Browsing needs no account. Downloads are free and always will be. Every plate states its licence in plain language, so you know whether you may use it commercially, alter it, or post it without credit — and where credit is required, the line to copy is written out for you.
If you recognise a piece filed as artist unknown, saying so is the single most useful thing anyone can do here. It turns an anonymous picture back into somebody's work.
What this is not
It is small. It is run by one person. Not everything in it is credited, and pretending otherwise would undermine the only thing that makes it worth building. The catalogue grows slowly because work that can be properly attributed is genuinely harder to find than work that cannot — that is the trade, and it was made deliberately.