Freeman;
Thanks for a hugely informative and useful post. My only experience with
framing a large poster was a French 47 X 63 for WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
BABY JANE. the frame was built in L.A. about 7 years ago (it might have
been Sue Heim's company; this is before I became acquainted with Sue
personally) and whoever did the work did a great job. The piece was
unbacked, and displayed beautifully, but what a hassle to transport &
hang the beast! When I sold the poster, I sold the frame along with it.
Just writing about this piece is making me have seller's regret
deja vu........
Anyway, thanks for the information. We may be buying a house with
more wall space, so I'm already eyeing some of those 3 sheets I have
sequestered away in storage......
Greg Douglass
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Tom and gang,
My experience is consistent with your comments. I had a 2
panel French Lawrence De Arabie (63" x 94") and initially it was
really a buckler which drove me nuts. The framer came back out to my
house, and putting in both leaves into my dining table and clamping
plexi-glass on one end I was able to create a workspace to handle the
size of the poster. we basically trimmed more of the linen at top and
bottom for it appeared the buckling was more a quotient of poster
creating more slack from hanging vertically and possibly moisture in
the air, rare in LA but this was January a rainy season.......thus
buckling as it had no room to stretch its legs. We staple gunned very
evenly onto the linen as closely to the actual paper tightly along top
of inner frame - that's the support inter-frame that reinforces the
outer, decorative frame due to the weight of the plexi-glass. Then
only lightly pulling canvas to bottom of inter-frame to allow for
shrinkage in warmer months. It worked great but I think if I had
attempted this in Summer I would have had more sag or warp in winter
as poster relaxes due to moisture.
The above was my first problem experiencing this with large paper. I
now have a slightly different approach when framing such posters,
especially 6 sheets. My clients do not want sagging. So now I assist
a framer I use regularly and we wrap poster around an interframe with
excess linen as if re-stretching a canvas. The paper usually is just
short of flush with edge of inter frame. I was worried that in drier
months that poster could split if temp variations caused to shrink
too tightly. So when stapling linen to frame, we now staple all four
sides with a slightly relaxed stretch that allows for some give and
take due to environment changes. Of course many installations are in
homes or buildings with very regulated temperatures. However I still
do the same as heat would cause subtle tightening. This has worked
out great thus far. No screaming calls of terror with a poster
splitting from being stretched to tightly.......if that even ever
happens. The trick is to staple with very little space in between
each. For example I counted the number of staples used in one of my
last installations and it was close to 300. Admittedly its a bitch
when switching out 6 sheets or 4 foglios when client wants to rotate
out a poster. Pulling every one of the staples out carefully so as to
not shred or tear excess linen so it can be hung again later is
agonizingly TEDIOUS and hell on the forearm. But its a service call
and it adds to cash flow and great one on one client interaction.
Your rippling though is not necessarily exclusive to large paper. A
onesheet can demonstrate similar traits.......and that can be a
function of linenbacker cutting poster out of its original stretched
rack while not 100% dry. If still slightly holding moisture and cut
out early, as it dries, poster will undulate when laid flat due to
cotton backing drying with no tension to its four sides. That is why
whenever I am in receipt of poster freshly linen backed I lay in my
flat-files with 4 large heavy Italian tiles wrapped in heavy plastic
to protect from scratching surfaces and place all four two across and
two down all but covering entire stack of one sheets for about a
week. Occasional warping hasn't been an issue since coupled with
reminders to linenbacking studio to not cut out a poster before its
time. For French posters I lay in between to equally sized sheets of
plexi-glass and weight down with heavy books. Overly cautious, maybe
but it avoids problems down the line.
freeman fisher
8601 west knoll drive #7
west hollywood, ca
90069
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