Hanga is color woodblock printing with multiple blocks using water pigments and rice paste.
Matting japanese prints.
Mounting matting and framing your prints and putting them under glass or a glass substitute not only protects your prints from dust pollutants and fingerprints.
It is good to show as much of the subject as possible.
It also makes your work look.
It was the technique used to make the ukiyo e and shin hanga prints of japan.
Generally speaking for standard oban sized japanese prints image about 9 10 x 14 15 inches the wider face mat should normally be somewhere in the 2 1 2 to 3 inch wide range although variation is certainly acceptable and can be a matter of personal taste.
Matting is the paperboard window which surrounds the print.
We currently offer no mat single mat double mat floated island mat and article framing for your artwork.
Framing is putting the mounted matted print into a frame preferably behind glass.
My imagery is mostly of new england with a focus on the lakes and mountains of vermont and new hampshire.
This video shows step by step how to mat a print using the.
But where to begin.
I make woodblock prints using the traditional japanese hanga method.
Posted by dara segal on sep 15 2014 as of may 2019 our available mat styles have increased.
The mat border provides a clean edge around the print and can be used to cover damaged edges of a print.
When to float when to mat.