I’ve learnt a lot about conservation over the past few weeks. To sum up, unless every single part of the framing is of conservation/museum standard (which in pure materials, doesn’t cost that much more than bog-standard stuff), your art will be rapidly deteriorating. This can easily happen within 2-3 years. It’s been a bit depressing opening framed art and seeing some of the damage. If there has been obvious damage, the backing board or rear mount has caused the biggest damage and unfortunately this is where framers cut the cost. By just a few quid! Even suppliers don’t always give the right information.
I’m now making frames and although the learning curve was steep on the first, the next went much faster. Just clamped this and leaving it for a day.
