How to frame your own painting?

The following is a detailed operation:

1. Paste: It is not recommended that you make your own paste, supply and demand for cumbersome and not easy to operate. In the stationery store to sell some bottled, when used to get the amount of paste needed to dilute with cold water, not too thick, not too thin, can flow can.

2. Lay the work on a smooth board or glass table (front side down, back side up); ★ With a wool brush to dilute the paste evenly coated in the back of the work, do not paint too much. Take a piece of rice paper around than the work are about 2 cm wide A, roll long tube left hand from one side slowly put rice paper, right hand brush (to dry brush) left and right back and forth brush and slowly put the rice paper to continue to brush, until the rice paper brush finished.

Brush can be covered with a layer of newspaper to continue to brush, painting heart solid, specific requirements can not be loose to leave bubbles. ★ and then use the paste of the brush around the edge of the work 2CM brush on the paste (the middle of the brush, do not brush, is to ensure that the work can be easily uncovered after drying); ★ and finally pick up the framed works, the works of the front facing themselves, affixed to the wall or the floor door of the glass, with a dry brush in the work of a vertical brush, brush a horizontal brush, painting the meter can be, and finally put the works around the 2 centimeters to the outside of the brush. ★ So that the work is pasted on the wall or landing door on the glass, to dry.

3. Two or three days later, when the work is dry with the hand from corner to side to pull it off slowly. Don't wrinkle it.

4. Tow good works from the wall to take down, followed by stereotypes cut edge; then followed by stereotypes around the reverse side of the work with thick paste set on the drain, the front to show the drain edge 5MM (color to dark for good).

5. Then inlays: that is, the periphery of the work of decoration (color set you like). Cutting inlays: first cut the long side of the work × 5.5CM two pieces, in the long side of the brush on the 0.5CM wide paste paste works on each side: and then to the top of the head of the width × length (works of the length of the 2 \ 5 plus 3CM); below the width × length (works of the length of the 3 \ 5 plus 10CM) under the cutting of inlays pasted. Waiting for drying.

In a nutshell, first find a smooth clean glass and ready to thin glue, and then the painting front to the glass flat, and then a soft broom glue gently swept on the painting, when it dries, and then sweep a layer of so repeat a few times, and finally when it dries thoroughly on the painting gently torn off the painting on the painting basket.

Expanded information:

Introduction of framing

According to the Modern Chinese Dictionary, framing should be "framing", also known as "framing back". Refers to the sticking on the liner for reinforcement or for display; specifically refers to the paste (such as a piece of paper) in a strong material as a binding. That is, with paper or silk fabric as a backing, to decorate books, paintings and calligraphy, or to repair, so that it is beautiful and durable. Where the mount must be two layers, painting and calligraphy, such as the front to the outside, known as the mount; to the dye-free plain paper backing its back, known as the pasted.

Mounting is a traditional industry in China. More than two thousand years of history. Mounting styles are divided into vertical scrolls, halls, couplets, ponchos, screens, mirrors, fans, scrolls, albums, etc. The basic steps include backing, repairing and repairing the backing. Its basic steps include bottom, repair, large bracket, drying; need to be adjusted by the pulp, bracket back, on the wall, plus the strip, mounting damask, on the shaft, plus sign dozens of processes. Tang Taizong attach importance to framing paintings, will Wang Xizhi calligraphy and paintings through the ages designated Wang Xingzhi framing, Chu Suiliang, Wang Zhijing Supervisor to lead its affairs. Song huizong set up painting institute, framer for wenxiyuan six kinds of to be one of the imperial decree, Chinese painting and calligraphy framing skills since then passed to the people. Ming and qing dynasty framing techniques become specialized industry.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Picture Framing