Mounting

MOUNTING SERVICES

Because Flax Art & Frame is a full service frame shop, we offer all manner of mounting techniques, depending upon the appropriate nature of what should be used. Here is a synopsis of what we offer for mounting:

HOT MOUNTING

While we strongly discourage the permanent mounting of valuable artwork, we do a lot of mounting of prints, posters, and newspaper articles. For this type of mounting, we typically use a hot mounting method with our Vacuseal Dry Mount Press. It will handle art up to approximately 40 x 60" in size.

We can use this press to mount paper items onto foam board, mat board, solid cardboard mounting stock, or gator board (a rigid, laminated version of foam board).

COLD MOUNTING

When the art we are mounting is heat sensitive, but not especially valuable, we will use double sided sheets of pressure senstiive adhesive to permanently mount art without heat. We also have pressure sensitive foam board for this purpose. It is a lot more challenging to use this method on large pieces of art. It is easy to use on small things. With large pieces, however, you always run the risk of air bubbles getting trapped. The adhesives used are so aggressive that you only get one shot at getting the art down flat.

WET MOUNTING

When mounting fabric onto mat boards for wrapped mat treatments, or mounting prints or posters larger than 40 x 60", we will use spray adhesives to attach the art. This is not as permanent a mount as the hot or cold methods, since spray adhesives dry out over time and let go. We do use an iron, however,to help activate the adhesive after spraying and smoothing the art down onto the mounting substrate.

PRINTGUARD LAMINATING

If you want to mount an item on board but want to display it without framing and need to protect the surface, we can laminate it with a thin, matte finish plastic film called Printguard. This is a single side lamination, not to be confused with pocket lamination, which encapsulates the entire art, front and back in a plastic pocket and leaves a thin, clear halo of plastic seams all around the art. We do not offer pocket laminating. Printguard is adhered in our Vacuseal press and can be done on art up to 40 x 60".

HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MOUNTING OR NEED A QUOTATION ON A MOUNTING JOB? CONTACT US AND WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU RIGHT AWAY WITH THE ANSWER!