Tapa Cloth question..

[Cretin75]

Ok, so I'm framing 3, what I think is Tapa cloth... they look like these http://www.uoregon.edu/~mnh/Pages/tapa/index.html but with bears and trees on it, my customer got them from overseas. I guess they are used as blankets in the country she got them from.

Her previous ones are sew mounted, which I'm thinking of doing too.

We are float and sew mounting them onto a chocolate linen mat and then doing a raised mat over it.

Just woundering if sew mounting these would be the way to go.

 

[Baer Charlton]

Rice paste patches of Washie paper to the back (all depends how big the pieces are.... larger patches for larger clothes).
This will give you a safe strong surface to paste mulberry paper hinges to. "Helicopter" or "Y"or"T" hinges that are made by ironing baggie plastic between two pieces of papers..... leave an inch un-baggied, these fold out to make the paste surface and the "stem" is pasted through the backing.

 

[Rebecca]

A textile conservator in Hawaii, who works on these regularly, uses velcro and Japanese paper.

The fuzzy side of the velcro is attached to heavy weight Japanese paper using Beva or other adhesive. The reverse of the Japanese paper is then pasted to the top edge of the tapa cloth. The hook side of the velcro is attached with Beva, or other method, to the backing board.

I used this method once after e-mailing the conservator, and it worked well and simply.

Hope this helps.

Rebecca

I used this method and it worked well.

 

[artfolio]

I usually hinge mount them on a float with either a spacer or a window matt so that the irregular edges are shown and the glass is kept clear of the paint. Sewing them seems to be a bit of overkill to me.