[frameconnews] Re: Linen mounting posters

[Chris McAfee <Chris_McAfee@byu.edu>]

> Thanks for the info, Chris!!!!  Does (Japanese) mulberry paper come in
such a 
> large size?  The 'one sheet' movie posters are 41x27 inches.  I have
never 
> seen such papers other than in strips to make hinges out of...

Large sizes of Japanese paper are available. And if the paper's too small,
two or more pieces can be used. 

> Wetting the poster, doesn't that horribly wrinkle it??  That paper is so 
> thin...what about colors running?

Paper stretches when it gets wet. If it has room to stretch, it will not
wrinkle. Wrinkling occurs mostly when a dry sheet of paper is attached to a
wet surface--the paper begins to stretch but, because it is bound by the
dry surface, it cockles. The poster must be wetted for, if it isn't, it
will wrinkle as soon as the wet Japanese paper is applied to it.

As far as colors go, they MUST be tested before any water is applied. If
they run, find some other way.

> As for linen being acid...I collect old newspapers as a hobby having them

> going back to the 1650's.  Paper was printed on linen pulp back
then...and 
> pages from these old newspapers (and Bible pages I have from the 1490's)
are 
> firm, white and crisp.

Paper made from linen is different from linen, itself. Somehow, during the
process of pulping the linen, the acid and lignin is made inert.

> The nice thing about the linen mounting is it is so flexible that rolling
the 
> mounted poster and stroring in a tube is possible.  How is it for the 
> Japanese paper and the wheat starch???

Japanese paper, if it is made correctly (the younger Japanese are giving in
to western influences and, thus, not making the paper as well) is very
strong and comes in various thicknesses. There is always a Japanese paper
which can suit your purposes. And, if there isn't, there are places which
will custom make it.

There is a place in America which makes the paper the old school way. This
Japanese paper is strong and acid free. It is made at the University of
Iowa and is available to the public. There are a couple of other supplier's
which I can't find the information for right now. One is Aiko's in Chicago
(I think) and the other is the Japanese Paper Place (or Source) in Toronto
(I think, again). I'll try to find their addresses and phone numbers and
post them.

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Christopher McAfee
Conservation
Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
phone: 801/378-8359
fax: 801/378-6708
Chris_McAfee@byu.edu


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There's something so transcendent 
about being surrounded by books. 
It's kind of like working in a 
graveyard except the dead people 
can still talk to you.

student librarian on Felicity
May 4, 1999

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