Covered Window Mats Storage Archival

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.

Covered window mats storage archival.

Photographic prints mounted on board and unframed photographic prints in window mats. How to cut window mats. 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. Our 100 pure cotton fiber rag mat board offers the ultimate in conservation of art on paper.

Prints are attached to an acid free conservation board via a reversible hinge and then covered with a window mat custom cut to display the photograph or print. Archival mounting solutions for artwork photographs documents. Archival methods pre cut bulk window mats save you time and money. By william sawalich.

Published september 2 2014. Archival solution of the week. 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.

It s a non yellowing pressure sensitive adhesive. Never apply it directly on an object. This holds the window mat in place without compromising the archival integrity of the photo inside. The board used for most archival storage boxes is 60 points 60mil thick or 40 points thick.

All components of rag mat board are completely acid free and do not contain alum or lignin. Window mats acrylic glazing foamboard framing accessories contact us. It can be used for hinging window mats and securing photo corners. The overall philosophy of matting watch our short video.

My preferred method of affixing the window mat to the backing board is with a paper hinge made of archival tape. Coated with a neutral ph acrylic adhesive of archival quality the tape has a high thread count and a release liner paper.