MarkyW
SGF, Supreme Grumble Framer
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.
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.