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deaconsbench

deaconsbench

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I need some visual aid to help measure mat openings. Many antique prints have graphics and/or text that do not line up vertically/horizontally, and I have a time getting the height/width perfect. Perhaps someone has seen such an animal in a design graphics setting. I would be able to lay the sheet over a print and line it up exactly. All leads are greatly appreciated! :help:
 
Ditto. Can't live without them! Wipe 'em down periodically with a little UnStick to keep 'em clean!
 
You might try looking at Jo Ann's or another sewing store. A lot of their sewing tools have applications in the frame shop.
:cool: Rick
 
Before we bought the CMC we used to mount grid-printed drafting paper onto the back of the mats for complex multiple windows. Then we would mark them and cut through them. Glad those days are over.

Edit-I just read your question and see that you are looking for something different.
 
Keep in mind, sometimes the art isn't a perfect rectangle. Nothing you can really do in those cases, except find a state of zen.
 
I bought a few of these from a local craft store. (May even have been WalMart! :o Shush) They cut up into strips easily with an Exacto.

http://www.theleisureboutique.com/shop/wrights/124708-quilters-gridded-plastic-template/?filters=quilting-sewing/products/sub-templates-and-stencils&page=6

sometimes the art isn't a perfect rectangle
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SOMETIMES!!??

"Split the difference" works better for me than Zen.

Then it looks like the mat opening isn’t a rectangle. :shrug:

I have learnt that in these cases, cutting the mat farther away from the art mitigates the illusion.

Clive.
 
Thanks. I've found a 4" X 36" clear acrylic grid ruler so far, just not a variety of sheets large enough. I was hoping to trip over a 36" X 24". I hate being so visually "handicapped" to need such an item...but it is what it is. I'm more tired of making remnants of $14 mats!
 
C-Thru used to make large grid sheets but I searched their site and can't find them any more. I used to sell them in my art supply store. They were made up to about 24X36... fairly expensive but nice.
 
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