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Old 12-10-2018, 12:49 AM
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Default Float Framing Ideas/examples - pls show yours

I would appreciate seeing what you have done with items from your collections to display them in frames such that they the items float and perhaps are overlapping instead of matted out.

I have a group of ephemera items (program, ticket, photo, pin and jacket patch from a sporting event that I would like to frame as if they were laying on a casual table top display.

Cant find great images of what I am invisioning. The one below has a matted item and floating items,’but I don’t want to mat any of the pieces.

What did you use for spacers - foamcore etc.? Thanks!
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Here's what I did with a few items from a 1920's bike racer.
Ad poster, racing license, photo, and a couple medals (Including a national championship) The mat doesn't really obscure anything, the flat items are held on with acid free photo corners, with a plastic overlay to keep the very thin poster from collapsing out of them.
The medals are stitched through the hanging loops onto the back piece of matboard, and one has an extra layer of matboard to give it enough room.


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Thanks! Looks good, but the “boxed” matting style is what I’d like to avoid for a few pieces anyway. Any one else have unmatted, floating style framed collections?
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Thanks! Looks good, but the “boxed” matting style is what I’d like to avoid for a few pieces anyway. Any one else have unmatted, floating style framed collections?

You could do the front mat as a frame that has just enough width to support the glass, and have the pieces on the rear mat.


The only problems I've had doing framing this way is that most frames are made for only one layer of matboard and a slightly thinner backing. Finding frames deep enough for the stuff I want to do isn't always easy. Especially since I'm a bit picky about the frame itself.
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As a general rule, I don't float frame things as I prefer the items to not have contact with glass. Some newer items it might not matter for I guess. Most of the items I framed are either older or autographed, so acid free mats and no glass touching were important to me.
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As a general rule, I don't float frame things as I prefer the items to not have contact with glass. Some newer items it might not matter for I guess. Most of the items I framed are either older or autographed, so acid free mats and no glass touching were important to me.
Thanks. I agree, no interaction with the glass is the goal. I have seen some float frame options done in which the items are back mounted with archival tape etc to foam core or an acid-free substrate and a spacer is inserted around the edge of the frame such that the back mat board that is the background for the framed piece and the mounted items reside in the space between mat and glass without touching glass.
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