How To Keep Mat Board Together Without A Frame

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How to keep mat board together without a frame.

Many pastel artists are abandoning traditional mat and frame presentations and replacing them instead with wide wood frames. Choose a frame that is bigger than your poster s dimensions if you are using a mat. This allows the pastel to look less like a print or poster which commonly have a wide surrounding border. As of may 2019 our available mat styles have increased.

Mat boards come in a variety of colors and can be cut to custom sizes so you can have as much or as little boarder as you d like. These works are attracting the attention of the canvas buying public. Using a mat allows you to frame your art or photo with a colorful border without using an actual picture frame. When dealing with mat board for display you have two mounting options.

We currently offer no mat single mat double mat floated island mat and article framing for your artwork. I ve always framed photographs with a mat both for the traditional look and to keep the print separated from the glazing. Commonly oil and acrylic paintings are displayed with a wider wood frame that may or may not. The frame must accommodate both the poster and mat.

Over the last year i ve noticed the variety of framing methods for photographs at the high end new york galleries via the art show reviews on dlk collection recently i was printing a panorama for a show with a 36 size restriction.