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Wanda

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Hi, I have 4 parchments a client has brought in 2 of which are single page one is two page but my nightmare is the 3 page indenture which is folded and joined at the bottom, with a scallop cut top edge.
This peice is from the 17c. I have suggested using a polyester pocket, but my client is unhappy with the look. She is insistant that the pages are stuck together obviously this will cause issues down the track which I have explain. And I have used kozo paper hinges with wheat starch glue to stretch the skin around a hand cut slightly smaller mat board. ( I have also hand cut the window to inset so as to save space in the frame.) Any ideas, I am uncertain that strips of polyester will hold the weight of the 2 front pages!:shrug:
 
Could they be totally encapsulated in Invisimount? It would really disappear on something like parchment, unlike the gloss of Mylar/Melinex.
 
Invisimount sounds great but what is it and where do I get it
 
It is from AttachEZ - Pat Kotnour is one of our Grumblers, look her up in the Members List at the top of every page and you can get all her contact info.

Welcome to the Grumble, BTW. If you fill out your profile with a bit more information about yourself, it will make a lot of people very happy.
 
Invisimount is a non-glare film, poly somethingorother which functions pretty much the same as Mylar/Melinex only without all of the glaring glare.
 
thanks for your suggestions much appreciated looking forward to chatting more and I will leave more details!!
 
If the indenture is anything like the one depicted in this photo, then a Direct Contact Overlay (DCO) mount probably would not work well. The overlay material would tend to flatten the heavy texture and creases. A flexible overlay material (clear film) would not lay flat, and a rigid overlay material (acrylic) might distort the item.

I suggest hinging securely to a slightly-undersized mounting board of 4-ply or 8-ply alpha cellulose, and then float-mounting that assembly on a decorative background. That's what I did to this 1718 indenture, about 32" x 24" document size.

Of course, hinges should withstand normal handling, but they should also be fragile enough to function as a break-away mechanism to protect the item from tearing. Generally, Japanese paper and starch paste make very durable hinge mounts. But if you expect impacts from heavy handling or transport, then perhaps you could use hinges of muslin attached by starch paste, since animal skins usually are quite strong and tear-resistant.
 

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not to frankinthread this Jim BUT why is the bot of the piece partially folded up??? what was under there that was not wanting to be seen??
 
Bill, that's the way it was made, but I don't know why. I have another one from 1753, about three decades later, and it is folded at the bottom, too.

You may notice that the two wax signet-seals are on the folded part -- maybe the skin needed reinforcement for that?

I partially un-folded the lower-right corner to reveal the writing that appears to be Latin. Could it be a blessing from the Church of England? Anyone know Latin? If so, I could photograph a detail of that writing.

Sorry for the frankenthread, Wanda.
 
grrrr-argh can't upload photo, but 3 pages descending in size.
Hav done the undersize hand cut mat and the kozo sticking fairly well, presently. My prob is the 2 smaller pages on top. will try photo again later
 
Jim, if you post or send it to me, I'll translate it. One of the many things I have learned over the years that I have not been able to find many opportunities to use. Certainly, no opportunities to generate profit. Who would have thought you could not make money off of Latin?
 
2 photos are in my albums now. not a computer savvy person as you can tell, one day I may figure out how to attach here!
 
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