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I THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Tuesday, September 14, 1971

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piece of matboard cut to frame
it and placed over it. The pic-
ture is attached either with
transparent photographic cor-
ners or is "tipped" on with
ricepaper hinges glued with rice
paste. Tape is never used as it
will deteriorate and cause dam-
age to the picture. "Museum
board", which is made from rag
pulp rather than wood pulp is
used instead of matboard to
mount more valuable pictures
since the wood pulp used in
matboard will eventually deter-
iorate, causing some damage to
the picture mounted on it.
The matted picture can be
covered with a clear plastic, not
unlike saran wrap, which will
keep 'both the picture and the
mat clean, or it can be put in a
frame. The frame is cut from
wood or metal, or plastic mould-
ing slightly larger than the mat-
ted picture to allow it to ex-
pand or contract slightly with-
out buckling and is nailed and
glued, welded or bolted, or glued
together depending upon the
material. Glass or plastic is cut
to cover the picture and a piece
of cardboard is cut to hold the
picture in the frame. The en-
semble of glass, picture and
cardboard is nailed into the
frame and the back of frame
is covered with a sheet of brown
paper to keep dust out of it.
The frame functions to pro-
tect and preserve the picture
but it also can, if well chosen,
serve to enhance the appearance
of the picture by giving it both
a finished and also a defined,
or physically limited, appear-
ance.


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By LARRY ADELSON
Can three University dropouts
find truth and happiness fram-
ing pictures for the masses of
Ann Arbor? And what are those
things in the window anyway?.
Megaframes, a custom picture
framing shop at 217 North Main
Street (across from the Post
Office), holds the answers to
these and other questions. The
shop was opened up nine months
ago by Dana Rematey and Bob
Graham who were out of school
and not making too much mon-
ey framing pictures at Forsythe
Gallery, and John Caldwell, a
friend, also out of school, who
lacked experience as a framer
but had the capital necessary to
start the venture.
Graham is a former student at
the Architecture and Design
School who has a painting stu-
dio above the shop and who is
responsible for both Mega-
frames' policy of giving a 20
per cent discount to artists for
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frames for their own work and
also for those odd things in the
front window which are in fact
Donald Duck skulls and are the
work of Susan Crowell, a local
Ceramics Graduate Student.
They make for unusual window
dressing, especially for the
rather conservative downtown
shopping district and have been
the source of much discussion
and phone calls from as far
away as Grand Rapids.
Megaframes works with a
number of the local art galler-
ies and provides a full range of
services ranging from retouch-
ing and repairing to packing
for shipping but the thrust of
their operation is towards serv-
ing private, off-the-street busi-
ness, advising people on how to
frame their pictures as well as
actually framing them. Their
prices have been set by balanc-
ing out the desire to keep prices
down with the need to pay the

bills and have leveled off at
near, if perhaps slightly lower
than those of the other fram-
ing shops in Lown.
For the benefit of The Daily
readership, which tends to tape
a poster or pin up to the wall
and to whom the concept of
framing may be somewhat
alien; Megaframes provides the
antecedent introduction to ex-
actly what it is all about.
There are a number of things
which can be done to mount or
frame a picture. Posters, photos,
and reproductions can be dry
mounted. This is a process by
which the piece is sealed with
a thermoplastic sheet to a stiff
backing (in this case paper cov-
ered styrofoam, a quarter of an
inch thick called Foamcore) in
a heated press. This is a rela-
tively cheap way of keeping
things flat and from getting
wrinkled (around three to five
dollars for a poster) but does

nothing to protect the surface of
the picture.
Another way of mouhting a
pictui'e is- to "float" or "mat"
it using matboard, a thick card-
board which comes in a spec-
trum of colors and a variety of
textures. A floated picture is
simply attached to the front of
a piece of matboard whereas a
matted picture has another
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