Recreation

[Ricky]

I need to recreate tis frame style
I've got the moulding but need to
find the black glass tape thats been used
Any Ideas?

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[GeoSpectrum]

Is it then black farme tape by Scapa that Lion sell? is got a slight texture. Part no 824.

[Ricky]

Its appears to be some form of fabric tape, about 10mm wide being used to hold the glass together,
must be good stuff that frame was made sometime in the mid thirties.

[GeoSpectrum]

Perhaps this/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extra-Power-Mul ... B0001M0H4G

[prospero]

That looks like the old so-called '' Passepartout' tape. It sticks like youknowwhat to glass and it lasts for centuries.
I've reframed a few pics that were framed like this. It was the original cheapo frame.

I've tried to find a source for it in the past and it seems to be extinct.

Unless someone knows different.

[Not your average framer]

I'm told that it was also known as photographic album tape and was available in a number of colours. As far as I know, the genuine stuff has not been available for a very long time, perhaps as far back as the 1950's / 1960's. Conservation suppliers used to list a replacement for it during the 1980's, but I didn't think it was anything like the original stuff and it did not produce a very professional looking job either.

At one time Hewitt & Sons (a bookbinding suppliers) had a branch at Park Royal in West London and they used to sell of bits and pieces of old rolls of bookcloth. I'm assuming that it came from the workshops of old bookbinders who had retired and closed down, (it was one of the places where old and secondhand bookbinding equipment was sold). One of these of types of bookcloth was called watercloth and looked about the same as the original Passepartout tape although not self adhesive. Unfortunately finding watercloth these days is very unlikely too.

[Jamesnkr]

Filmoplast T tape? (Near the bottom of the link.)

http://www.framersequipment.co.uk/conservation.htm

Not sure how you would make it black, but that must be easy enough?

Edited: maybe by buying black tape? https://studioartshop.com/acatalog/info-12425.html

[Ricky]

Thanks for the links & info Guys.

[prospero]

FWIW I once tried traping glass around a corner using Filmoplast T and I could not get it to stick. Crease and burnish it as I might it always peeled off of it's own accord.