How do you frame a piece of calligraphy?

Go to your local handmade framing store and let the master give you a handmade frame up or handmade core.

Basic steps for the beginning of framing:

1, buy rows of brushes, brown brushes and other tools:

Rows of brushes and brown brushes are the two most important tools for handmade calligraphy and painting framing. Selection of 24 tubes of the brush is good, the newly bought back in the root of the brush drop on some 502 glue, in order to prevent hair loss. Newly purchased palm brush is best to take alkaline water soak for a period of time, to remove the surface of the palm skin and impurities.

2, making paste

Paste is the adhesive for handmade painting and calligraphy framing, and we need to use gluten-free flour for our handmade paste. I used to make the paste by using a wooden stick and stirring it while cooking. First put water in a pot and bring it to a boil, add the flour and bring it back to a boil, stirring as it cooks. Be careful with the consistency of the paste you use for framing, it should not be too sticky or too thin, semi-fluid is better.

3, square heart, support heart

will be the heart of the painting and calligraphy with a cutter square cut neatly, the general situation of the heart of the painting I use the wet bracket method. The so-called wet support method is in the back of the painting and calligraphy heart sprayed with water and then brushed with paste, and then covered with a layer of raw rice paper. Tuo heart of raw xuan paper has a single xuan, heavy single xuan, folder xuan, etc., according to the heart of the painting and calligraphy paper thickness to choose a different heart of xuan paper.

4, on the wall to earn dry

To good heart of painting and calligraphy must be on the wall to earn dry, while on the wall with a brown brush avalanche, but be careful not to paintings and calligraphy avalanche off. In general, the wall of the painting and calligraphy heart to wait five or six days to be able to naturally earn dry. Earned dry after the use of bamboo screwdriver to pick up the heart of the painting and calligraphy down, and then use the cutter and steel ruler square cut neatly to wait for the inlay work.

5, inlaid work

Inlaid work is inlaid material, according to the specifications of the heart of the painting and calligraphy square cut ready to be inlaid on the material. Usually we will be set on the Jinya or Song Jin. Brocade or Song Jin are sold online, according to the color of the heart of the painting to choose the shade of brocade or Song Jin, there are a variety of styles and patterns of brocade or Song Jin. The paste used for inlay work should be slightly thicker.

6, cover the back, paste the skewer paper

Set live the heart of the painting and calligraphy need to be pasted on the back of the back of the paper, and then on the wall to earn dry, earn dry after the square cut neatly. Stick string mouth paper is in order to be in the back on the sky, when the pole, usually, the sky pole is made of square wood, while the pole is round wood, the length of the sticking string mouth paper is usually to be able to wrap the sky, the pole and then long 2-3 centimeters for good.

7, on the sky, ground rod and lanyard

In the pasted crosstalk paper were installed on the sky, ground rod, installed to wrap the sky, ground rod, you need to play in the interface with thick paste. Ground rod also need to install the head of the shaft, the sky rod using damask edge material can be wrapped. After the day, the ground on the rod on the need to play crook circle on the sky rod, and then tied to the lanyard, so as to complete the framing.