The 60 inch cord with tassels from graduation

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Hello,

Has anyone framed the cord that graduates wear around their neck at graduation? The customer brought in lots of cool stuff like the diploma, tassel, announcement, photo, program....which is easy to design. Nobody ever asked to include the long braided cord. Any ideas? Pictures would be really helpful.

Thanks,

Susan
 
Off the top of my head

Why not use it as a backdrop woven as a background with spaces and then make some fillet frames and mats for the announcement, etc. that fit into or within the open spaces.

Think about the weaving of the memories from start to finish into one completed memory.

Make any sense???

Elaine
 
You could flemish the cord (same as you do with lines on a boat) ... here is a very small example:
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Thanks, Rick.
Cord was sewn on and gavels were attached with fly-tieing thread (that's strong, tuff stuff, and comes in a bazillion different colors) diploma cover with melinex under corner ribbons and at the fold in the middle.
 
Thank-you!

Great ideas, Val, Elaine and Andrew. I will show these to my customer when she comes back with a few more items to put in the montage. I didn't think that it was possible to include the folder that the diploma comes in-so that was pretty neat, Val. This folder has a photo of the school also, which would be nice to include. How archival is folder? Did you do anything in between the certificate and fabric from the folder? Did you hinge the certificate so that it couldn't move?

Thanks!

Susan
 
Here's one we did recently. The cord is sewn down to black matboard and the tassel is backed with a mirror.

Chris @ TGFU
 

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susang said:
1: How archival is folder? 2:Did you do anything in between the certificate and fabric from the folder? Did you hinge the certificate so that it couldn't move?

Thanks!

Susan
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1: I don't know how archival the folder is.....good question. I just know that the graduate's mom (my customer) hoped to keep it intact. The ribbon corners were "pretty", she said. The wooden gavels aren't exactly acid-free either (heh-heh), but they're an important part of the package. Sometimes you've gotta make those choices.

2: Yes, I put a piece of 1-ply cut to it's exact size behind it, but no, didn't "mount" (hinge) it, just held in at the mylar (?) corners, unhinged and un-fooled-around-with.

I've done several with the folders, they're often very pretty, and some have the school's inscription "engraved" into the opposite side of the certificate. Seems a waste not to use that.

Maybe someone could offer info about the archival qualities of those folders. I doubt they're totally archival, if at all, but I know that I've had my own diploma stored in it's original folder for 30-something years now (ouch!) , and it doesn't seem to be affected. Gotta frame that someday!
 
Val said:
Maybe someone could offer info about the archival qualities of those folders. I doubt they're totally archival, if at all, but I know that I've had my own diploma stored in it's original folder for 30-something years now (ouch!) , and it doesn't seem to be affected. Gotta frame that someday!
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This isn't anything technical about the archival qualities of folders, Val, but only anecdoctal... I had a customer in Calgary who brought me 3 of her husband's diplomas (from the 1970's) to frame. Two had already been framed and one was still in its folder. The two that had been framed had discolored, had acid burns around the mat opening and you could see where they had been mounted with masking tape. Only the diploma in the folder was in pristine/mint condition. I wish I had taken pictures of all three diplomas to show the damage that can occur.
 
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