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Cliff Wilson
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I have the name of your gallery! (but, i'll be polite and not mention it.)
Customer has been having her needleart (cross stitch) sent out for framing for years. (friend of a friend) It is mostly starting to be very wavy so she brought it in for me to fix. (She said I wasn't around before, but she'll come to me from now on because I'm convenient.)
I took the first two apart to "restretch." First of all, no glass, but mats. The mats are a mess. Bainbridge linen mats all warped from exposer. I'm sorry, unglassed needleart I understand, but "open air" mats????
Then, when I pry the mat off the mounting board (more on that later) the needleart is Stapled to this VERY hard paper board. (not sure what the board is, but it's heavy!) I guess I could understand stapling, like a canvas with Stainless Steel staples on stretcher or strainer, but this thing is laid out on the board and stapled on the face with copper staples that were clearly done with a pneumatic stapler with so much force that it has severed the threads of the piece in many places. Ok, I can at least take the staples out. (BTW, anyone know what this heavy Paper board is? )
BUT, please, please, please stop attaching the mat to the mounting board (and needleart) with white glue!!! I have finally disentangled the piece and am remounting it, but that glue will never come off the piece and it is already caused threads to pull, etc. One of these pieces was done in the last year, so this is an ongoing practice. PLEASE STOP. If you have to attach the mat to the mounting board, just hinge it please!!!?
Thanks,
Cliff
P.S. this is more a rant than anything. Although I have the name of the gallery, I have no evidence that they are a Grumbler.
[ 02-18-2004, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Cliff Wilson ]
Customer has been having her needleart (cross stitch) sent out for framing for years. (friend of a friend) It is mostly starting to be very wavy so she brought it in for me to fix. (She said I wasn't around before, but she'll come to me from now on because I'm convenient.)
I took the first two apart to "restretch." First of all, no glass, but mats. The mats are a mess. Bainbridge linen mats all warped from exposer. I'm sorry, unglassed needleart I understand, but "open air" mats????
Then, when I pry the mat off the mounting board (more on that later) the needleart is Stapled to this VERY hard paper board. (not sure what the board is, but it's heavy!) I guess I could understand stapling, like a canvas with Stainless Steel staples on stretcher or strainer, but this thing is laid out on the board and stapled on the face with copper staples that were clearly done with a pneumatic stapler with so much force that it has severed the threads of the piece in many places. Ok, I can at least take the staples out. (BTW, anyone know what this heavy Paper board is? )
BUT, please, please, please stop attaching the mat to the mounting board (and needleart) with white glue!!! I have finally disentangled the piece and am remounting it, but that glue will never come off the piece and it is already caused threads to pull, etc. One of these pieces was done in the last year, so this is an ongoing practice. PLEASE STOP. If you have to attach the mat to the mounting board, just hinge it please!!!?
Thanks,
Cliff
P.S. this is more a rant than anything. Although I have the name of the gallery, I have no evidence that they are a Grumbler.
[ 02-18-2004, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Cliff Wilson ]