How To Make A French Mat For A Picture Frame

Picture frames mat board ruler cutting mat exacto knife pencil tape or hardware for holding the art in the frame.

How to make a french mat for a picture frame.

The addition of a sleek well cut mat can greatly enhance the look of any framed picture but having a mat cut and frame made commercially can sometimes cost more than the picture itself. How to make a picture frame. Especially when the mat doesn t match the bright white of the frame. French matting looks like a series of frames drawn around the mount.

Carol duvall host of hgtv s the carol duvall show shares her discoveries about matting and framing artwork. With custom services including picture framing art restoration and intaglios in atlanta former art curator patricia horton took ownership of fred reed picture framing. If you ve ever used the ikea ribba frames you ll know that the mats are more of a cream than a pure white. Mats are used in framing photographs and artwork to center the focus of the picture and give it a sense of spatial depth.

Traditional french matting is an embellishment technique used in the past mostly for engravings and botanicals. Now it is used to give depth to the mount or image. The english mats created at this time were similar to those from france but at times the english mats were dark with opaque lines a style which worked well in dark interiors and in contrast with the maple and gold frames that were popular. In this video i show you how i did a custom frame and mats for some artwork.

Here the image is cut apart each section mounted on 1 4 foam. It drives me caaa razy. Pat has expanded atlanta. Of course you also need art or photos you ll put in the frame and the tape is for taping the art inside the frame if you don t have another way to hold it in.

It started as several sheets of paper of different sizes piled up in order to protect the painting.