Question How would you mount this?

MarkyW

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I got in this ribbon from a ribbon cutting opening of a new owner of a power plant here. As you can see (and I pointed out to the customer, along with that it has some stains, etc.) is the ribbon has a curve to it. It's getting matted, but the printing is curved along with the ribbon, too. I told them there's really nothing I can do about that. I'm guessing that maybe they thumb tacked it to the wall for a while and it got the curve in it. And maybe they cut off the holes from the tacks because it's cut pretty close to the lettering now.

The ribbon is a fine weave fabric, pretty smooth, I'm thinking maybe a polyester or something. My 2 thoughts on mounting would be to use probably 4 hinges with methyl cellulose paste. While that's "reversible", the paste will get into the weave of the fabric, but I don't think they will ever take it out to do anything else with it. My other thought was to do what I call a "perimeter mount". Others might call it something else. I cut a board opening slightly larger than the art and glue that to the back of the mat, put the art it and then put the fallout back behind the art and usually keep the fallout in place with dots of hot glue. Rectangular art is easy to cut like that, but with this curve I'll have to trace the ribbon and cut the board slowly with probably a couple passes, but it's do-able. That way there are no adhesives at all on the art.

Any other thoughts? Thanks.
 

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I believe what you are suggesting is called a platform mount, and it is worth a shot.
Without attachments the ribbon may tend to slump in the mat, but maybe not.

Another option would be to do a Direct Contact Overlay (DCO) which would hold the ribbon in place with the pressure of the acrylic glazing and the friction from the padded, fabric covered mount.
 
Wally, I had thought of a DCO before they brought it down. They did say it was long and I thought I would give the option if they wanted to keep the price down by not going with an oversize mat. If it was straight, that would be no problem, but with that curve, it won't go in a frame to the edge. Well... maybe with some of the mouldings that come in with warps, it might work. LOL.

Maybe I will do the hinges at the top with the methyl cellulose so it's supported from the top, but also do a platform support so it's supported from the bottom, rather than just rely on one or the other. Thanks for your thoughts.
 
Here's what Mary Beth did. (Clicking will take you to the thread.)
You might try practicing on another piece, first.

 
Thanks for sharing that Shayla. Years ago when I changed over from using rice starch paste to the methyl cellulose, I thought that was much easier.
I have read about the Klucel and thought about getting some, but never got around to it. Well, I finally ordered some.
I have some ribbon I can do some tests on before I would do anything with the customer's piece.

One other thing I thought about that I will have to test is doing some small tacks onto Kool Tack Preserve. Just a couple spots that would act like hinges. I'll try some of my own ribbon with that and see how it goes.

Thanks again.
 
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