Seal Skin - How to frame??

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Elaine

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Just got our first seal skin etching/ink drawing(?) in, need to know if there is anything special we need to know on framing it.

Thanks

Elaine

p.s. counting down the days to 1 year anniversary!
 
Originally posted by Elaine:
...need to know if there is anything special we need to know on framing it.
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Yes, absolutely, there is something special you need to know about framing seal skin. I can't wait to find out what it is... :(
 
Elaine, All the one's I've reframed (I have a client that collects Inuit art) were glued directly to corrugated cardboard. Not highly recommended, but historically correct. :eek:

Hey Rebecca, This one should be right down your alley!
 
Glued to cardboard - ouch!!

Can't wait to hear the correct way!

Elaine
 
Glued to cardboard?! :eek: Wally, if it's a print on paper (probably Japanese paper ;) ) made from a seal skin stencil, I can help. If it's actual sealskin (brrr) I don't know - I've never heard of a print on sealskin.

Etchings have been done on parchment and leather supports - as far as I have seen, those are just hinged and matted as per usual, although unbuffered matboard (alpha or rag) would be the way to go there.

Rebecca

I don't think glued to cardboard would really be considered historically correct, unless the collection was focusing on historic (not necessairly good) framing methods. To my knowledge, the co-ops sold (sell) them unframed.

[ 03-29-2003, 11:37 PM: Message edited by: Rebecca ]
 
A big thank you to Wally, who has just told me about some very early Inuit prints on sealskin dating from 1956. That's really interesting, something I didn't know about.

Elaine, does yours have a date and artist? How did it come to you - framed, or rolled? Is is rippled, or nice and flat? If it's reasonably well behaved, could you just use those Mylar edge holders and window mat over the edges?

Rebecca
 
Grrr, can't edit. Not a print on sealskin, but graphite drawing with paint. Sometimes I'm a lazy reader, and see what I think will be there, not what really is. Sorry.

Rebecca
 
I'll look at it closer, and let you know. It was framed, but not conservation and it slipped in the package.

I'll get back to tommorow.

Elaine
 
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