How to make a mat with your own hands

Making a picture, photograph or embroidery in a baguette will require the use of a passport. Of course, you can do without it, but the well-chosen color passepartout, its impeccable performance will make our image sound new, more complete and interesting. In addition, the passepartout is able to harmoniously combine the decorated image with the interior details .

You can buy a mat in the finished form, but it's not at all difficult to make a mat with your own hands. To begin with it is necessary to be defined with color, then in a baguette workshop to buy a cardboard. To make a passport, you need to cut out a neat window in the sheet of this cardboard. The surface on which we will work should be strong enough and elastic, and necessarily - perfectly flat. In addition, it should be noted that in the process of excision there is a threat of damage by a knife.

When making a passepartout with your own hands, you can use an ordinary well-ground knife, but if possible, it is better to purchase a special cutter . With it, you can make an oblique cut (45 degrees) on the inside of the frame, which will give the image a perspective and a sense of depth, and the work will look professional and exquisite.

Do not forget that the mat for embroidery, photography or painting should cover the image no less than 5 mm around the perimeter. When cutting, you should be very careful, the cleanliness and accuracy of the cut must always be observed.

As for the tools used to make the passepartout, it should be noted that it is rather difficult to work with the simplest and cheapest cutter, without certain skills it is unlikely to work properly. Much better results can be obtained by using a torch, which has a special slot for the knife blade. One of the most convenient and affordable devices for making a passepartout with your own hands is the cutter "Logan 4000", which has a fixed angle of inclination of replaceable blades.

The device for the convenience of the user is equipped with control marks that determine the beginning and end of the cutout. To fix the required field sizes, a mobile graded rod is used.

Making a mat with your own hands will also require knowledge of certain subtleties and rules. This refers to the width of the frame passepartout: a picture or photo, on which there are a large number of details, can have a wide frame, or even very wide. Then all attention will be concentrated on the central part of the image, the importance of the overall idea of the work will be emphasized. A narrow frame in this case will provoke consideration of every detail and detail of the image, to disperse attention. A wide frame will require a portrait, on which there is a minimum of details - so we can expand the frame field. Photos or pictures with large spaces - the sea, the sky, etc. You can draw a very thin frame.

The attractiveness of the work also often depends on the color and brightness of the passepartout. Too bright color can "clog" the image itself in the picture or picture. To the non-contrast and dim images, you should make the passepartout of softer and lighter shades. The width of the frame and its hue are also able to work on giving the image volume, "moving" it inward or vice versa - moving forward. But to predict the result is very difficult, it will be possible to estimate it only when the picture is framed.