[frameconnews] Posted on behalf of Dr Horst Weidmann

["Stephen Todd" <Stephen.Todd@btinternet.com>]

D'Amelio schrieb:
> Dear Friends,
> We live in Argentina in a city called Rosario 300 km. north
from Buenos
>  Aires. We are artists and run a small framing shop.
> We're working in art and conservation framing and we�re very
happy to have
>  found this interesting place to exchange ideas.
> We have been asked to mount some Japanese silk kerchiefs on a
board. Our
>  client wants them very tight and without wrinkles.
> We don't know exactly what to do, because we don�t want to
mount them by
>  gluing and run the risk to ruin them. Have any of you done it
before? We'll
>  appreciate very much any comments about this topic especially
which would be
>  the most suitable kind of acid free glue to use.
> Thank you very much
> Damelio Gilardoni
>
>Dear Damelio, in order to get the Japanese silk kerchiefs very
tight you have
to double them with strong Japanese paper glued with rice starch
paste and
special Japanese bruhes on the back of the silk. For this a
special prodecure
used by Chinese and Japanese conservators to mount images and
calligraphies on
paper and silk on scrolls has to be applied. I myself apply this
method and
described it in a German magazine for picture framing 4 years
ago. The article
contains a step by step instruction supported by 10
illustrations. The total
article comprises 8 printed pages in the magazin. I intend to
have this article
translated into English and printed in THE PICTURE BUSINESS. THE
BUSINESS
MAGAZINE FOR ART AND FRAMING, London.

Dr. Horst Weidmann
Frame maker, master framer and restorer
Former editor of "Der Kunsthandel", a German magazine for
pictures and frames
(http://www.conarte.de)
Editor of RAHMENWELT, the new German magazine for picture
framing
(http://www.glaswelt-net@rahmenwelt, with an English version)
E-mail address: conarte@t-online.de


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