Dry Mounting Supplies?

[David Reynolds]

Lodima.com sells highest quality Matt board and will cut mats for you too
I only use 2 ply board now for mounting...4 ply fills up a box too quickly
Paula from Lodi is the best!!

I tried to go to Lodima.com and it came up as a domain name for sale. Out of business?

 

[Renato Tonelli]

Another good supplier (nice and courteous and helpful):

https://www.archivalmethods.com/

 

[gone]

Before you make your bulk purchase, maybe try out some of these methods on a few prints and see what suits you? I used to frame and mat prints myself, but the reflections in the glass and plexi was beginning to drive me crazy. Can't see the image clearly lots of the time. Now I simply mat them and display them w/o frames or glass and they looks fine. They're not watercolours, they're B&W prints, so I wonder why covering photo prints w/ glass became such a thing? While glass or plexi may cut down on fading due to IR, if the prints aren't in direct light or very bright artificial light there should be no issues.

Back in my inkjet days I would print on these beautiful textured papers, and as soon as you laid glass or plexi on top of the prints the texture would just disappear. That tells me the glass or plexi is disrupting the light and not showing what is really there on the print. Not good!

 

[Pioneer]

I tried to go to Lodima.com and it came up as a domain name for sale. Out of business?

try Lodima.org

 

[DREW WILEY]

Yet another set of remarks from me. I wouldn't buy potato chips from a Wal Mart, much less art supplies. There are dozens of kinds of foam board, and you can't buy the good types even in art stores. It's certainly not ideal for drymounting. And you might not like the prices of real museum board or conservation board. Want "volume" pricing? Then expect to pay thousands of dollars and have a business license. Wholesalers aren't interested in casual orders. But the best volume pricing I have seen for matboard and museum board accessible to the general public is Redimat in Santa Rosa CA - I haven't tried their specific products, but they can send you samples. It might be an ideal source for you.

And I do recommend checking out sites like Archival Methods - not cheap but convenient. You can obtain drymount tissue from any serious photo supply house like Freestyle or B&H, and many other vendors. There is a distinct technique to doing it right. Framing supplies? It's a whole other analogous ballgame. You won't get wholesale pricing unless you have your own frame shop. Any discount you get from anyone else will just be a token modest discount. But there are do-it-yourself picture framing stores in every major city - not museum-quality by a long stretch, but perhaps suitable for now. They'll even computer cut your mat windows (not on the spot). Big topic. But don't get discouraged. Just take it a step at a time. We all began there.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Personally I use 4 ply mats (8 ply if professionally cut), print mounted on 2 ply board, and use foam core for the backing board.

+1

 

[M Carter]

Matt, thanks for the framedestination link. Garland isn't too far from me, BTW.

I'm in Dallas, Lakewood area - you can order from FD on their site and pickup locally, no shipping $$. Their work and their customer service are absolutely top notch. Great people there.

 

[Danner]

I'm in Dallas, Lakewood area - you can order from FD on their site and pickup locally, no shipping $$. Their work and their customer service are absolutely top notch. Great people there.

I did order & received 10 sheets of 32x40 ragmat, beautifully packaged and shipped (saved me the trip over there), and couldn't be happier.