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I know there are various methods of framing football shirts, does anyone have step by step pictures ? If I have made a fomecore inner for the shirt to keep the shape, how do I attach that, once it is inside the shirt, to the back mount board?

Personally I use T pins from Lion



here

Some people use a microstitch gun also from lion but I find these support the weight of the shirt well.

I use the Fabric gun from lion, works really well. Link below:

http://www.lionpic.co.uk/product/FINE-F ... 244,0.aspx

I have taken photo's of a frame I made for a rugby shirt with the making process, will try to dig them off my other pc and upload.

Cheers

Nick

How do you secure the "other end" of the t pin to stop it pulling back through?

Hand stitch through the foam, shirt (at seams no as not to make visible holes) and board. Pre-drill the board to make it eaisier to push the needle through. I use small buttons on the foam and board to make sure the thread doesn't pull through. It's a bit fiddly at first but you soon get used to it.

Abacus wrote:How do you secure the "other end" of the t pin to stop it pulling back through?

I push the T from the shirt side hidden by the front of the shirt through the foam board former at a downward angle through the backing. You can usually access it through the neck and the bottom of a shirt as long as you are displaying in full and not folding. You can also often hide them just below seams as well.

Here is some light reading for you

http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=football