The coloured border around a picture is called a mat or mount. The YourFramer™ framing team uses a special white core acid free mountboard for cutting your mounts. This gives a clean white bevel edge which will not yellow over time.
The mount maintains a space, or border, between the outer frame and the picture. It also provides a space between the glass and the picture.
Photographs, needlework, pastel and watercolour artwork, should always be framed with a mount surround and glass.
Glass is always necessary as it protects the coloured mount, and the actual image inside the mount.
Oil paintings can also be framed with a mat.
Most artwork looks better when a mount surround is included in the framing design. This is because the mount is used to focus attention onto the image.
The YourFramer range of mountboard is a high quality, acid free board with a clean white core. The white core maintains its whiteness for many years.
The surface paper of the mount...or the coloured top layer is produced to an alkaline or neutral pH level, using quality cellulose fibre boards, which are free from impurities which could harm your artwork.
The Inner Core of the mount...the pure white core of the board contains alkaline buffers to maintain the boards neutral properties and also to maintain the lifespan of the board. This acid buffers minimises the effects of harmful atmospheric pollutants can have on the board.
The Backing Paper of the mount ... is made from chlorine free cellulose pulp, with alkaline buffers to maintain neutral properties.
This all means that the -
- mats look better because of the white core
- being acid free they protect your artwork
- are colourfast for a much longer time
Look for a colour that is in the picture, and use that as the main colour for the mount surround. The colours shown on your computor screen are not 100% accurate to the colour of the actual mountboard. So the colour supplied in the kit may vary a little from the online colour. But the colours shown are close enough. It is difficult to separate the colours of the white mountboards, however you can get a better idea of the colour from the popup boxes attached to each colour.
- Seascapes look better with the soft greys and blue coloured mats.
- Black and white pictures can look good with a dark green mat as an alternative to a black or white mat.
- Outdoor photographs usually need the mid green tones.
- Modern art, childrens pictures, and posters can be enhanced with bright colours.
- Pencil drawings and fine art are best when surrounded with soft whites.
The wider the mount border - the better the picture will look!!! A general rule that can help you choose.
So, when framing your pictures use a wide mat border, say at least 6cm. On small photographs the border can be narrower.
Offset the mount - this means to make the base wider...but ONLY do this when the picture is bottom heavy? A bottom heavy picture will have more of the image contained in the bottom half of the picture. ..eg a seascape may be all sky in the top half and all land or sea in the bottom half...this is what is called a bottom heavy picture.
You can stretch the appearance of the picture sideways by increasing the mount border size at the SIDES ONLY...eg a wide landscape can be made to look wider with mount sides which are wider than the top or bottom.
You can stretch the appearance of the picture lengthways by increasing the mount border size at the TOP and BOTTOM...eg an image of a lighthouse can be made to look bigger with a wider mount at the top and bottom.
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