Hand prints moulded in clear glass.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed 01 Feb, 2017 4:22 pm

A local gallery has asked me to frame 2 cast glass baby's hand prints. About 190mm in diameter and quite heavy. They are clear glass so I can't stick them to a back board.

Gallery has suggested allowing the frame moulding to hold in the glass and using a mount behind to hold it in place. As chevron on left.

I would have to use spacers to cover the inside of the moulding and also to stop it rotating in the frame.

Any suggestions of how to frame (and how much to charge, just my time?).

Photo attached (Grey background one side was an experiment to see if a colour other than white would look better).

Thanks, Jonathan

Jamesnkr · Post by **Jamesnkr** » Wed 01 Feb, 2017 4:39 pm

Jonathan wrote: About 190mm in diameter and quite heavy.

That's one big baby!

Melinex straps?

Presumably the interest is in the child's prints, not in the edge of the glass, so you could use an 'ordinary' window mount?

Or hold it in place with some rods/clips?

The gallery's idea with the glass discs right up against the glass sounds to me as though you will end up with broken glass.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed 01 Feb, 2017 4:47 pm

Could be a child, but the overall size of the glass is around 190 mm diameter.

The gallery were suggesting NOT using glass, so the background of the casting would be against the frame. So a shallow box frame open to air and dust, another problem.

Jonathan

kartoffelngeist · Post by **kartoffelngeist** » Wed 01 Feb, 2017 4:53 pm

I've framed a few glass bits, none of them round unfortunately.

Roboframer's suggestions on this thread helped me a lot: http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... sh#p116858

Good luck!

Jayvee · Post by **Jayvee** » Wed 01 Feb, 2017 8:11 pm

Sink Mount? If it's not the edge of the glass that's the feature? Seems a shame to hide it mind, but then again, we can only obey the laws of physics in this job (contrary to customers belief)

Not your average framer · Wed 01 Feb, 2017 9:12 pm

I've done difficult stuff like this before and it's not as difficult as you may at first be thinking! If you stick these glass items onto a piece of glass spaced back from another piece of glass at the front of the frame, with a piece of mountboard spaced back behind it, it will look like it's floating in mid air and everybody who sees it will wonder what's supporting it.

Use clear silicone to secure it to the piece of glass, don't use little blobs as the edges of the blobs will be visible, but cover the back almost to the edge of the glass items. You only get one chance to get this right so put a bit of scrap mountboard of the same size underneath the glass, which has the outline of the glass item drawn onto the mountboard with a pencil. You will need a quite deep frame, but It will look great!

Steve N · Post by **Steve N** » Thu 02 Feb, 2017 8:10 am

In the I think the latest edition of 4Walls mag from Arqadia, ( it's at home so can't show it) Lynn Hall (GCF (Adv.), APF
Fringe Arts) shows how to frame a number of glass blobs in a frame , she used a glue of some sort (I written glue, but it could be adhesive, just don't nit pick ) just found a link

Go to http://www.arqadia.co.uk/docpages.aspx? ... e=magazine down load the PDF of the January edition, the artical starts on page 6 of the PDF version

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