advice needed - oversized poster

[Xiang Kuang]

Hi everyone,
New member here, and need some advice. A customer brought in an oversized poster, 45" by 45", synthetic paper, a blend of cotton and fleece, thin, and in a way it drapes like fabric, but still has the properties of traditional paper. He just wants to pop in, and press the poster against the anti glare acrylic. It sounds easy, but I feel something will go wrong. It most likely will be wavy, the poster won't stay flat inside the frame. Can't dry mount for multiple reasons - it's a valuable and collectible; it exceeds the max size of my dry mount press; and last but not least, synthetic paper won't form solid bond with my silicone sheets. I'm thinking about the same direction when we frame those gigantic super expensive silk scarf, definitely not sewing, but adding some soft, bouncy polyester quilt batting behind it. Once I observed this process at our local museum during a family event, it's super simple, but very effective. Should I do the same thing to this oversized synthetic poster? Also, I'd like to double check, is it ok to let the poster contact the acrylic? Your help is much appreciated.

 

[wpfay]

The technique is Direct Contact Overlay, DCO for short, and member Jim Miller has written instructions on the technique. Do a Search for him under Member Search (upper right) and you should see a link to his publications.
Your project does sound like a candidate for this process.
Do you know the process of how the image was printed or applied to the textile background? This could make a difference in the appropriate technique used.

I have done the process, but only with woven textiles and friable paper-borne works.

 

[Xiang Kuang]

The technique is Direct Contact Overlay, DCO for short, and member Jim Miller has written instructions on the technique. Do a Search for him under Member Search (upper right) and you should see a link to his publications.
Your project does sound like a candidate for this process.
Do you know the process of how the image was printed or applied to the textile background? This could make a difference in the appropriate technique used.

I have done the process, but only with woven textiles and friable paper-borne works.

Thank you. I've been reading the threads and there are so many to learn! Considering the books as Xmas gifts for myself.
I believe it's a screen printing, and used acrylic ink(?). The synthetic paper is Texilina, it can be entirely polymer based, but this poster is a blend of paper/cotton and fleece.

 

[monkey]

Hi everyone,
New member here, and need some advice. A customer brought in an oversized poster, 45" by 45", synthetic paper, a blend of cotton and fleece, thin, and in a way it drapes like fabric, but still has the properties of traditional paper. He just wants to pop in, and press the poster against the anti glare acrylic. It sounds easy, but I feel something will go wrong. It most likely will be wavy, the poster won't stay flat inside the frame. Can't dry mount for multiple reasons - it's a valuable and collectible; it exceeds the max size of my dry mount press; and last but not least, synthetic paper won't form solid bond with my silicone sheets. I'm thinking about the same direction when we frame those gigantic super expensive silk scarf, definitely not sewing, but adding some soft, bouncy polyester quilt batting behind it. Once I observed this process at our local museum during a family event, it's super simple, but very effective. Should I do the same thing to this oversized synthetic poster? Also, I'd like to double check, is it ok to let the poster contact the acrylic? Your help is much appreciated.

Yes, I would frame it like a silk scarf using DCO by Jim Miller.