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RE: [Digital BW] Re: hinge mounting

2005-03-02 by Seth

That's how I do it also.  Allows viewing both sides, leaves the print free
to move, still easily reversable.

Seth

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Clayton Jones [mailto:cj@...] 

==
==>Just a tidbit:  Mounting to the window mat is generally frowned upon.
==> Collectors/curator want to open the window to examine the 
==full face of 
==>the print, and let the print hang down from the backing to 
==examine the 
==>back of the print.
==
==Good point.  What I'm doing now is I think the best of both worlds. 
==One of my frustrations with mounting on the backing has been 
==that if the matt moves even slightly during framing its 
==spacing around the image is messed up.  Hinging to the matt 
==solves that, and the entire process is quicker and easier.  
==So I am hinging the top of the print the matt, and the top of 
==the matt to the top of the backing.  This allows the matt to 
==be lifted and the print drops down to be fully examined.  
==Seems like a good compromise.

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