How To Make A French Mat For A Picture Frame

Carol duvall host of hgtv s the carol duvall show shares her discoveries about matting and framing artwork.

How to make a french mat for a picture frame.

Especially when the mat doesn t match the bright white of the frame. French mats continued to be popular into the 20th century. If you ve ever used the ikea ribba frames you ll know that the mats are more of a cream than a pure white. Traditional french matting is an embellishment technique used in the past mostly for engravings and botanicals.

How to make a picture frame. With custom services including picture framing art restoration and intaglios in atlanta former art curator patricia horton took ownership of fred reed picture framing. Beginning with a turquoise mat add 1 2 foam board on top and end with the addition of a white mat on top of the foam board. Picture frames mat board ruler cutting mat exacto knife pencil tape or hardware for holding the art in the frame.

In this video i show you how i did a custom frame and mats for some artwork. Mats are used in framing photographs and artwork to center the focus of the picture and give it a sense of spatial depth. Of course you also need art or photos you ll put in the frame and the tape is for taping the art inside the frame if you don t have another way to hold it in. Now it is used to give depth to the mount or image.

It started as several sheets of paper of different sizes piled up in order to protect the painting. Https youtu be 0ibr 7n5rem xii print by mike m. French matting looks like a series of frames drawn around the mount. It drives me caaa razy.

Here the image is cut apart each section mounted on 1 4 foam.