Framing Postcards

[Custard]

How do you normally configure the mounts for framing postcards?

I can see two options, first is to trap the edges of the postcard and then the back could be glazed and the reverse of the postcard revealed. Alternatively cut the aperture to the exact size of the postcard, but then the postcard would have to be attached to the undermount and the reverse of the postcard would be obscured.

Are there alternative methods that I'm missing?

Thanks.

[prospero]

Sounds like a prime candidate for mylar encapsulation.

[YPF]

What about 2 mounts back to back with apertures just smaller than the postcard, place the card in between both mount and this would allow both sides to be seen but leaves little available for hinging?

Personally, I would use mylar/melinex encapsulation, this allows the full card to be seen without any hinges attached. I recently used this for a series of postcards that had been collected by a lady when she was a small girl in the 1930s.

Steve

[Custard]

Thanks for your comments!

[Custard]

I've done some more research and agree that mylar/melinex encapsulation is the way to go.

If anyone searches this in the future there's an explanation here

http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres/manual/ ... front.html

and also here

http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/archives/pr ... /index.cfm


But I still have two questions where I'd appreciate some help. Firstly where do you buy mylar or melinex? As neither Lion nor Wessex seem to stock it. Secondly what thickness of mylar/melinex would you advise for postcards?

Thanks

[YPF]

Bought mine from Preservation Equipment

http://www.preservationequipment.com/Home

search for polyester roll

I think I used 75 micron for postcards recently.

Steve

[prospero]

foolsmoneyframe.jpg (55.76 KiB) Viewed 6440 times

Encapsulated by Robo

Designed by Moglet

Frame made by Prospero.

[Nigel Nobody]

It's hard to see the faces, but that looks like Rodney & Del Boy in "Only Fools & Horses"!

[prospero]

That's right Ormond.




The carp photo was by me as well.

[Nigel Nobody]

I wasn't going to say anything about the photography! You should have come to my "Photographing and Editing Finished Frames" class in Brisbane recently!

Are they dee rings sticking up above the frame?

[Roboframer]

If anyone searches this in the future there's an explanation here

http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres/manual/ ... front.html

and also here

http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/archives/pr ... /index.cfm

There's some duff info on those links, some missing info too.

The tape should be no closer to the artwork than one eighth of an inch and no further away than a quarter of an inch. Three eighths is out!

It's not just static/friction doing the work, it's pressure and pinching too. Pressure from the sheets, which come from a roll and are placed together like this )|( (red = polyester sheets, blue = artwork. Pinching from the mount.

If you place the artwork on the mylar and then put double sided tape (3M 415 or better still, 889 if you can get it) around it, you risk getting the artwork stuck to it whilst working. Remove that risk by putting the artwork UNDER the sheet of mylar, position your tape, remove the release paper and THEN position the artwork on top - and their's STILL a risk!!

Tape all the way around, possibly leave a tiny gap in just one corner to ensure all the air is squeezed out. BURNISH it on - I use an agate burnisher.

BUY JIM MILLERS BOOK or search the Grumble for encapsulation and his name.

[Custard]

Robo, I searched Amazon for "Jim Miller" but all they had was "An Introduction to Syntax" which doesn't sound packed full of framing advice! Do you know the book's title?

[Roboframer]

Here you go .....

http://www.pmai.org/online/core/orders/ ... prodid=869

But do the grumble search anyway - most of the info in the book is there!

Here's a quick thread ... http://www.thegrumble.com/showthread.ph ... apsulation

[Trinity]

Mr. Millers book lands on your mat for £19.86 if you order online, delivery about 8 days in my recent case. Cheap as chips really for a book of such practical help.

[framemaker]

A couple of good links here, both are PDF's by Jim Miller on clear film mounting, encapsulation etc:

http://www.pmai.org/WorkArea/linkit.asp ... emID=17745

http://www.pictureframingmagazine.com/p ... TCLEAR.pdf

I would buy the book as well though!

[Custard]

Thank you all. What a great forum this is!

[Roboframer]

foolsmoneyframe.jpg

Encapsulated by Robo

Designed by Moglet

Frame made by Prospero.

Gordon Bennet! I gave those to the Mogster at the 2008 Spring Fair to get a round in!

[prospero]

Took her two years to decide which shade of black.


btw. Those are triangle hangers sticking out the top. (My Idea. ) Carefully set into hand-carved recesses so the two frames could be fixed back-to-back.

[WelshFramer]

A couple of good links here, both are PDF's by Jim Miller on clear film mounting, encapsulation etc:

I would buy the book as well though!

I Googled the title and got a pdf. It looks like the book but is only 14 pages. Does the real book have more pages than that?

[framemaker]

Mike,
The book has 32 pages