Today I want to show you how you can mount your artwork without even a smidge of adhesive touching the piece.  In this instance we are mounting some antique sheet music. The sheet music is intact and has about 4 pages, it isn’t just the cover.  This method works great for lightweight items like this and could be used to things like comic books as well.

We’ll be using the large mounting corners for this job. These are plastic corners like the black ones they used to use to mount photos in old photo albums. It’s the same concept. These are adhesive on the back and are 3″ wide. The medium corners – at 1 1/4″ would have most likely worked, too, but the 3″ size gives more space to hold the sheet music securely.

These large mount corners cover the artwork by about 3/4″.  So you need to make sure that your mat window will come in more than 3/4″ in on your artwork.

Once your artwork is mounted like this you can then get ready to frame it. If your mat, mounting board and glazing is archival then you can rest assured that this item will be protected the best it possibly can be.

In the case of this sheet music,  if you get a deep desire to play this song you can always get it out and set it on the piano.  No one would ever know it was framed.

p.s.  If you really do wanna know this song about the wonders of Oregon, you can find it here in an archive.

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