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clifpa

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Good morning all,

My customer wants to float her painting, on canvas board, to a blue mat with frame?

The customer says she doesn't care how I mount it because her son does lots of them. Maybe Cresent Perfect Mount Film, would it hold the weight?

My thinking is that once she sees it on the blue mat she may change her mind so was hoping to have a reversible method?

Thanking you in advance
 
Attach several tabs of linen tape - the kind you moisten to activate the adhesive - and pull them through some slits cut in the blue backing. Cross-tab those on the back.

Actually, I would insert the linen tape through the slits FIRST or you're going to have a devil of a time getting everything lined up.

Clear as mud?

[ 09-26-2003, 09:55 AM: Message edited by: Ron Eggers ]
 
Thanks Ron!

I assume that the linen tape we'll end up sticky on both sides.

How do you line up, true, the art with the top of the map?

I was also looking at using Cresent Perfect Mount Film? I used this for a couple of mountings and it worked really great.

Thanks again Ron. ;)
 
Mount it on a larger piece of matboard than you need, and cut it down.

I have done canvas board this way, but onto fabric covered masonite, since it was stronger. I drilled holes in the masonite, and in the corners of the painting (yes, yes, the customer wanted it) Then I just put some of those copper tabs (pins, bolts, ?) you use to hold stacks of notebook paper together. I "distressed" and antiqued the heads of the clippy things, and it looked quite nice. The customer could easily change out the painting, as well.
 
If you make the slits in the back mat first, you
can take a pencil mark the back of the canvasette
board where it will align with each slit. The
tape can, then be adhered to the cardboard and
pulled throught the slits, so that it can be
fastened to the back mat with more linen tape.
The pH of the tape will probably be no lower than
the pH of the board behind the canvas. If some
of the slits are horizontal and others are vertical, the system should give better resistance
to shock. Given the problems of alignment, using
a larger back mat that can be trimmed later may
also be useful.

Hugh
 
Thanks all,

As usual, great techniques!

Did anyone have any thoughts about using Perfect Mount Film?

bet
 
Cliff, I regularly use Perfect Mount, but I don't think I would for this application.

If you want it to be reversible, the linen tape will work better. If you don't care about reversibility, some PVA glue will hold a lot better than Perfect Mount for something with some weight.
 
Again, Ron has a good bead on the physics, here.
The linen tape should give you shock and warp protection, while glue or mounting film could crack or peel if the frame is bumped or if things begin to warp.

Hugh
 
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