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Main  Framer to Framer  Rubbings
	Topic: Rubbings
?	posted 10/24/2012 4:20:00 PM by John Pallesen E-mail: john@highdesertgalleries.com	[ Post your reply ]
	A customer wants to frame 2 life size rubbings from family in England. The rubbings are on something that looks like butcher paper, He also wants the images cut out and adhered to a nice specialty mattboard. Any ideas on what to use for adhereing to the matt. Archival is not important. John
!	posted 10/25/2012 11:11:00 AM by Greg Fremstad E-mail: gregf@frametek.com
	I have dry mounted manuy of these rubbings. The trick is to cut out the rubbing fairly close to the image. Then, using photo-flat dry mount tissue (or other low temp tissue in a mechanical dry mount press, mount the tissue to the back of the rubbing between 2 sheets of release paper. Now cut out the rubbing as close as you need to and then mount to the fresh backing board.
!	posted 10/24/2012 4:31:00 PM by James Miller E-mail: artframe@att.net
	Roll or brush a very thin coat of water-based paste on the back of each cut-out and then adhere it to the board. Fresh-cooked starch paste would be best, but SureMount or VacuGlue 300 would work as well. You could also dilute a fabric adhesive or use ordinary wallpaper paste. Make sure to use as thin a coat of paste as possible, so it does not ooze out around the edges of the cutout. I suggest using a blotter at the edges. If you have a vacuum press, use a cold 110-minute cycle to activate the wet-mount''s bond. If you do not have a vacuum press, use a brayer or dry roller to remove air bubbles under the cutout of paper, then dry it at least overnight under weight with a desiccated (dried by heat) blotter. This sort of mount would be tricky, since the rubbing''s paper substrate probably will wrinkle severely as soon as the wet paste is applied. So, if you could use the cut-out''s perimeter piece as a guid and apply the paste to the board instead, that would be better. Also, I suggest trimming the perimeter of the mount board after the mounting, in case the cut-out is not perfectly positioned in the center. Be careful and good luck.