Mount decoration

These mounts are often called washline mounts (or mats), French mounts, or English line and wash mounts. The examples here have both been done by framers in London. I like the deep blue wash used on the one, and the second has two wash colours combined with thin lines and the inner edge of the top mount is the original mountboard colour; giving three subtle colour shades to the mount. I think these types of mounts can look great on more traditional artwork, and even some more contemporary designs can be used to good effect on more modern work.

Poor quality tapes can damage art!

This is not what you want to see when you take apart any frame, let alone a drawing by L.S. Lowry. Self adhesive tapes such as seen here (yellow/brown masking tape and parcel tape) should not be used inside framing, and should NEVER come into contact with the art. You can see in the second photo where the adhesive in the parcel tape has dried out and left a nasty residue.

Incised detail on mount slip

The corners of the mount slip were incised with small flower designs, and also painted with bole.

The mount slip ready to be joined

The mount slip sections are cut and ready to be joined. The corner sections (the off sets) were joined with glue and clamped. Then these were joined to the lengths on the underpinner.

Making the mount slip

I decided to also make a slip for the mount, this would also have off set style corners. These were cut on the Morso.