Cotton Mat Board

The colored surface paper is of the finest quality fade and bleed resistant.

Cotton mat board.

Crescent ragmat matboard is of archiv. Big selection of archival mat boards and mat supplies for all of your framing needs. The colored surface paper. Each board is 4 ply 054 058 approximately 1 4.

This premium line of matboard has a pure white 100 cotton rag core and backing paper. Crescent 4 ply ragmat museum mat boards are designed for conservation and preservation are acid free and made from 100 cotton. Cotton is used to make the finest type of paper and mat boards because it is the purest form of natural cellulose. Other cotton rag mat board features no face papers providing museum quality protection.

Ragmat boards 100 cotton acid and lignin free meeting all of the stringent standards of the library of congress fine art trade guild professional picture framers of america and more crescent ragmat boards are the safest materials available to come into contact with artwork. No filler core is used in archival mat boards offered by archival methods. Rag is strong requires less processing has a history of performance and it is an annually renewable resource making it a better product for our planet. Mat board can be constructed from a number of different materials all affecting the mat s archival abilities.

In addition to the 4 ply we offer white rag mat board in 2 ply 1 ply and an unbuffered 4 ply version. It comes in a variety of colors including many neu. When cutting a window mat the bevel cut will exhibit the same solid color as the top and bottom of the. Shop for matboards and art framing supplies that include glazing materials mat cutters clamps and more.

Museum boards are made by laminating paper sheets together to create 2 ply 4 ply or 8 ply thicknesses. This premium line of matboard has a pure white 100. This is the time trusted archival standard used by artists and conservators for more than two. And we didn t skimp on quality.

This solid core mat board is 1 16 thick and features a color match core. The 4 ply construction is buffered with 3 calcium carbonate and is acid free and lignin free everything you want in a mat board. Blick is pleased to offer uncut matboards and pre cut mats for decorative conservation and archival applications plus foam board and mounting board for posters presentations or craft projects. Cotton unlike wood contains no lignin at all.

Combined with archival framing methods your artwork will be preserved for hundreds of years. Museum mat boards are made of 100 cotton. Museum quality 100 cotton mat board in 2 ply 4 ply 8 ply. Some archival mat board is made of cotton rag but have wood based face papers.

This board is made with 100 cotton fibers with solid color throughout. This is the option museums and collectors choose when framing photographs and artwork and is the most expensive option.