From the course: Matting, Framing, and Hanging Your Photographs

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Mounting art in a mat

Mounting art in a mat

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Mounting art in a mat

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Okay, now that we have assembled the mat package, the next step is to mount the photograph within the mat. So, I'm going to open up where I have hinged it and notice too the hinge is at the top of the mat. So, if you were doing a vertical work, the hinge would be on the other end. So I'm going to open up the hinge, and I'm going to slide the work in and then I'm going to let the hinge kind of fall down to where I can see accurately and position the work very carefully, so that all the edges are even. I'm going to take a little piece of matboard and set that on the work to protect it and then set a brick on top of that, and I have taped this brick up with gaff tape. So, we don't want any little crumbly bits getting on the art. Then I am going to open the mat back up and for these small works on paper like this, I typically mount them with a linen hinge, or in this case, I'm using a Filmoplast hinge. This particular tape does not work well for heavier works, but for a work of this size,…

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