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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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