Wednesday

Effect of double sided tape on artwork


This inkjet printed photographic print was stuck to a piece of mountboard with double sided self adhesive tape, the solvents in the tape can be seen in the image on the right coming through the paper and causing the yellow discolouration on the image border. Double sided tape is very useful, (my wife is very fond of using it for all sorts of creative tasks with her school children!) but in framing it is used mainly for attaching two pieces of mountboard together to make a double mount, and it should not be used to fix the artwork.