Covered Window Mats Storage Archival
Archival mounting solutions for artwork photographs documents.
Covered window mats storage archival. Photographic prints mounted on board and unframed photographic prints in window mats. All components of rag mat board are completely acid free and do not contain alum or lignin. How to cut window mats. By william sawalich.
Expertly made custom cut window mats circular and oval mats multi window mats and pre cut mats for all of your archival presentation exhibition and storage needs read our series of blogs on matting. Can be water activated or self adhering. Archival methods pre cut bulk window mats save you time and money. Coated with a neutral ph acrylic adhesive of archival quality the tape has a high thread count and a release liner paper.
Never apply it directly on an object. Sheets smaller than 30 x 40 fit into archival boxes which come in various sizes and are much less expensive than flat files. Archival solution of the week. Although vertical storage in office files or in upright flip top archival document storage boxes is acceptable for legal sized or smaller documents objects larger than 15 x 9 should be stored flat.
This holds the window mat in place without compromising the archival integrity of the photo inside. Published september 2 2014. Let s face it folks cutting window mats is a fine art in and of itself a good mat will enhance your photographs artwork and collectibles while a badly cut mat will distract from whatever you re presenting. Wholesale archival mat board.
It s a non yellowing pressure sensitive adhesive. The overall philosophy of matting watch our short video. The board used for most archival storage boxes is 60 points 60mil thick or 40 points thick. It can be used for hinging window mats and securing photo corners.
Pre cut bulk window mats. My preferred method of affixing the window mat to the backing board is with a paper hinge made of archival tape.