Supply chain issue for linen mountboards

[ArtistMakesFrames]

Hi all,

I have just become aware of a current supply chain issue for linen mountboards with no stock available from Wessex or LJ (I am UK based). Not great as I have been upselling linen boards this month and have about 5 orders for LJ's Gingersnap board!

Does anyone have any experience with making their own linen wrapped boards? Is it worth trying?

Thanks

AMF

[JKX]

If you’ve ever peeled the surface off these fabric boards you’ll know it’s extremely flimsy stuff. If you covered a board with normal fabrics and cut an aperture through that, the corners may not be too clever.

Fabric wrapping already cut mounts is different - nobody does it in UK but it’s a big thing across the pond. I made a trip to the US in 2006 to take a course on it by Baer Charlton, who at the time was a rep for a company called Frank’s fabrics.

He has a range of YouTube videos on the subject, here’s one, you should see the rest.

[Tudor Rose]

**nobody does it in UK but it’s a big thing across the pond.

..... ** more accurate to say "not many people choose to do this in the UK" maybe?

Our biggest problem is not having a supplier like Frank's Fabrics in the UK where we can reliably get fabric in the same way you can order mountboard. Nothing to stop you getting a supply and creating your own line though, as frustrating as that is compared to just being able to use an existing board.

Wessex have stock of the Crescent cream - you could always get that as an alternative and paint it. Just lift the glass off the surface in case it wants to create wet patches.

We use a mix of LJ and Crescent linens - looks like the LJ ones are being pulled and some of the Crescent ones too. So we might have to resort to creating our own as well - we've not done linen covered before but we've done other fabrics as one offs. Wrapped after cutting the aperture, rather than stuck and then cut. Although we did do a very nice fine oak veneer stuck to a mountboard and that cut really well on our Gunnar.

[JKX]

..... ** more accurate to say "not many people choose to do this in the UK" maybe?

I probably should have put "Nobody" in inverted commas.

Have a nice day.

[vintage frames]

Back on topic,
Pure and Applied Conservation Framing do linen wrapped mounts.

https://www.pureandapplied.co.uk/