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AnneL

AnneL

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A local supper club is redecorating their lobby and brought in a couple of old menus that have been on display there for years to be reframed (one from 1956 and one from 1966). I removed them from the ugly old frame and faded green mat they were scotch and duct taped down to but now I am having trouble getting one of them mounted onto the new mat. I was going to float mount it using linen tape since they are printed on a fairly heavy card stock but one of them has a laminate coating on the back side that the linen tape won't stick to. The other is holding just fine.

I'm looking for suggestions for alternate mounting methods that are both reversible and invisible. Or is that not possible short of using a magic wand.
 
Don't go invisible. They're old so go vintage.

Find some of the old photo corners, the black ones with curlicues and float the menu showing those corners.
 
I'd still need some way to hold it flat in the middle. I was thinking of maybe getting some cord and tassels like you often see on menus.

Do those corners come in other than black? This menu has a brown border and is going on a slightly lighter brown board so I think black would be too jarring. Sepia would be just right but off white or cream would work also since the paper it is on is cream color.

I also want to avoid anything that is too cliche. One of the things the owners and I hated about the previous framing was that it was labeled with press on letters "Ye Olde Menus" then the year plus the word "menu" above each. We printed out just the years on beige cardstock to label them with. The rest is unnecessary.
 
Staple gun.... Wham right smack in the middle....

Sew it down like a needlework.

What do you mean the tassels like old menus? Are there holes in the center of the menu already? Use them to stitch it down. Do you know a good photographer that could photo it then photoshop the image so that it looks 3D?
 
Microdots of Lascaux 360 adhesive?

Wipe down the laminate first cleaning with 50/50 distilled water and rubbing alcohol.
 
Are these single pages, or booklet form?

I'd use some ribbon, kind of create corner pockets with them and then stick the menu in there. Depending on material and such.

Use fine sandpaper on the laminated back, to get a better 'grip' then dot glue it. I assume that true conservation is not really an issue anymore, with all the sticky stuff attached to it everywhere?

I'd still go with my first option, depending on how rigid these menus are
 
Very rigid, very thick, single, and folded in the middle. Now the second one fell off. :faintthud:

Gary suggested putting the hinges where there is residue from the old tape but I think that would be hard to line up with slits so I could pass the hinges through. The old tape was pretty random. I'm actually surprised they didn't slip since the tape was getting pretty dried out.

I might just need to go with belt and suspenders on this one. Corner pockets and something in the middle would probably be best to support them properly. It will have to be pretty heavy weight paper for proper support on the pockets.

Thanks for getting my brain going on ideas again. I've been mulling this one for awhile.

The menus are interesting to read. Different era. Cocktails down the middle of them, and steaks for less than $5.
 
A couple of other ideas...

1. Reverse-bevel mat, precisely cut, so that the window's bevel covers about 1 mm of all edges.

2. DCO using clear film or acrylic. Since the sheets are already laminated, the plastic covering might disappear.

Personally, I wouldn't trust any pressure sensitive adhesive to adhere for the long term, and most other adhesives wouldn't stick well to the laminated surface, either.
 
Only the outside of the menu is laminated with a shiny, glossy coating. The inside is matte so anything that went over it would have to be matte also. That's why I am hesitant to use the mylar I have since it is shiny. I'm afraid it would make them hard to read.
 
Do you have any of Attach-EZ's Invisimount, Anne? That has a matte finish to it, so perhaps it may be suitable for this job to keep the matte look of the inside of the menu.
 
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