Category: Printing & Framing
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“New and Improved” Mat Options
Since 2017, when we first created our webpage on Matting Embellishments(Updated), we’ve gotten better: Finding Proportional Moulding Widths Instead of increasing the differences between the side moulding width and the top width, and then from the top width to the bottom width, by a fixed amount as shown in Choice D of the original article,…
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My Solution To A Puzzle Project
A good friend and neighbor brought us a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle she had completed (with some help from her family) of Bryant-Denny Football Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (her alma mater). She had already coated both sides of it with Elmer’s Glue and wanted a simple way to hang it on the…
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Our Latest Framing Project
Earlier this year, a friend brought over a friend with a 46½ x 21″ monochrome print of the Scott Base comic strip “The Suit”Link. (I give these details only because the content itself in some ways inspired the final project design.) We discussed possibilities while they were here. After considering the obvious choices of a…
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What I Learned About Printing On Matboard
I just finished another challenging framing project. One new skill I had to develop was printing on matboard. My client wanted to frame his print of a comic strip using a dark purple mat. Neither Crescent nor Bainbridge has a huge selection of purples, but from their catalog, it looked like Crescent’s “Dark Purple” (89886)…
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“The Singing Tower” – A New Framing Idea?
I’ve come up with a possible variation to our image The Singing Tower, a Gigapan image of Bok Tower in Florida. As I stared at the canvas print on our wall, I wondered if a trapezoidal frame would work. What if I found a vanishing point by extending the tower walls up until they met…