Mounting Boabab Tree Bark

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A customer brought in a 13x10 painting that they got in Africa that was done on the bark from a Boabab tree. It is about as thin as toilet paper, but actually feels like fabric. It needs to be conservation mounted. Do you have any recommendations on what mounting method I should use? I'm not sure hinging will support it.

Thanks,
Jim
 
Jim -
My suggestion would be to encapsulate this "thin as toilet paper"art in Mylar and mount it behind the matboards.

This has been discussed several times on this forum, you can use the "search" function at the top of the page and do a search for "Mylar", "encapsulation", or "Mylar encapsulation" and find the archived topics that have been addressed for using this technique.
 
Not that it makes any difference as to mouinting, but it's actually "baobab" (I wouldn't know except that a very good customer has that in their name).
 
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