Hand Painted Asian Silk

[Big Ada]

Hi all,

I've had a job in to frame a Asian Hand Painted Silk it measure 36" X 14" and has been rolled up for two years so after unrolling it, it was quite crinkled and rippled and a bit of paint flaking in small areas. the customer wants a double mount behind glass, which I suppose will help to keep the silk from being in contact with the glass, the silk isn't very valuable and I advised the cutomer that it might have to be bonded to a substrait, he said that was fine and the silk would never be removed onced framed. I've never framed anything like this before so any advice much appreciated.

The silk is dark blue and a bit see through so would I be better bonding it to a dark substait?

I do have a hot press if that helps.

Thanks
Adrian.

[The Jolly Good Framer #1]

If it was me I’d go careful with the hot press!

It’s a job fraught with danger!

Seriously though, you only have one shot at hot pressing it and if it goes totally Pete Tong you’re the one who’s got to go to back to the customer and tell him the bad news that his painting is ruined.
You just don’t know how it’s going to react in the press!

Because of the size I would be looking at tagging it on to some 3mm foam board with a tag gun maybe. Depends really on the silk and how much edge you have around it to play with.

With regards to the colour – try some behind it and see what looks best.

[Ricky]

This Might Help
http://www.theframersforum.com/viewtopi ... rry+method

[Steve N]

If it was me I’d go careful with the hot press!

It’s a job fraught with danger!

Seriously though, you only have one shot at hot pressing it and if it goes totally Pete Tong you’re the one who’s got to go to back to the customer and tell him the bad news that his painting is ruined.
You just don’t know how it’s going to react in the press!

Because of the size I would be looking at tagging it on to some 3mm foam board with a tag gun maybe. Depends really on the silk and how much edge you have around it to play with.

With regards to the colour – try some behind it and see what looks best.

Totally agree, also in the past I have found that some of these will not lay flat, the first time I had this happen to me I used some Wadding (from Lion Page 55 item ref 307) on Foamcore board and tag the silk to this, not too tight, enough to make a pillow effect. Then I put a small gold frame on this (no glass), which in turn was screwed (from behind) to mount board, this was then framed in a gold box frame with spacers so that the glass was spaced off.

[Tudor Rose]

You should be able to easily lightly stretch and then pin the silk over acid free or rag foamboard and with or without light padding depending on how it looks and what the customer wants. Make sure you use pins that won't rust (Mal Reynolds recommends ones used by butterfly collectors). You will also need to line the rebate so that the silk isn't touching the wood of the frame and also space the glass (if using glass) away from it.

If it won't take a pinning method then you could use the Tight Fit method.

With pins you can easily adjust it as you go by repositioning them if needed.

[Big Ada]

Hi all,

Thanks firstly for the advice, I had a play with the newberry method as described in previous posts and it worked with great success, luckily I had around 30mm extra silk all around the edge so had plenty to clamp in the aperture.

Thanks again you guys .

Adrian.