Mrs.B
CGF II, Certified Grumble Framer Level 2
Anyone ever mount a "HeatSheet"? It's a foil "blanket" a runner wraps in to keep warm. I don't need to mount the whole thing, just a 11x14 piece of it to go in a shadowbox.
HeatSheet
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Baer Charlton
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
If you "press" it.... it's going to just look like a piece of foil mat board.
If you take a piece of 2-ply about 9x12.... and roll it thickly with Frank's Fabulous Fabric Adhesive..... then crinkle the blanket up and lay it on the wet adhesive.... and lightly press the points that are touching the glue with a small stick like a dull 'orange stick'.... so you force the bond.. you will end up with lots of micro dots of bonding.... and a blanket chunk that looks like what it is.
We lined the whole interior of a shadow box with a similar blanket.... only this was gold on one side. . . then put the pictures and a few doodads into the box. It was for a guy who worked on the building of the HUBBLE at JPL, his kids were doing it for his retirement.
If you take a piece of 2-ply about 9x12.... and roll it thickly with Frank's Fabulous Fabric Adhesive..... then crinkle the blanket up and lay it on the wet adhesive.... and lightly press the points that are touching the glue with a small stick like a dull 'orange stick'.... so you force the bond.. you will end up with lots of micro dots of bonding.... and a blanket chunk that looks like what it is.
We lined the whole interior of a shadow box with a similar blanket.... only this was gold on one side. . . then put the pictures and a few doodads into the box. It was for a guy who worked on the building of the HUBBLE at JPL, his kids were doing it for his retirement.
Riverwood
CGF II, Certified Grumble Framer Level 2
We did one once from the Chicago Marathon. It was fairly wrinkled from use already. We mounted in the press to matboard and then used it as a mat with photos and medals and a map of the race behind cutouts. Part of the blanket had the Marathon logo so it wasnt all just silver and it did keep a wrinkled look after mounting.
Mrs.B
CGF II, Certified Grumble Framer Level 2
This customer is a real neat freak, which is okay 'cause I'm one too. He wants me to mount just the logo part of the blanket along with photos, patches, a map, etc. No slightly angles photos, everything is very straight. I just didn't know how the plastic/foil the blanket is made of would react in the drymount press. The idea of using the whole blanket as a background would have been so cool.
Jeff Rodier
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
Since you are only mounting a section I would use some of the excess to experiment.