Conservation Mat Board

Unlike standard framing mats conservation mats are designed to last a lifetime with minimal tarnishing.

Conservation mat board.

Our bainbridge alphamat artcare and crescent select conservation mat boards are up to the challenge. It is acid free and lignin free with consistent color fade and bleed resistance and meets the library of congress preservation guidelines for matting framing. Shop for matboards and art framing supplies that include glazing materials mat cutters clamps and more. Conservation gallery mats blank.

Most conservation mat boards feature calcium and magnesium carbonate buffers to cage pollutants and molecules. It is best used for original artwork limited editions and other valuable or valued artworks. The matboard core color is a bright white. The matboard core color is a bright white.

Blank uncut mat boards. Conservation matboard is an alfa cellulose matboard made of pristine virgin fibres. Museum core mat boards are made entirely of cotton rag paper. They are blank mats that can be used as backers art projects or for cutting your own openings.

Conservation mat boards have a core of acid and lignin free cotton and a facing of wood pulp paper. Board is acid and lignin free and uses alkaline or neutral sizing. It is best used for original artwork limited editions and other valuable or valued artworks. Purified wood pulp paper has a long history of being safe to use with paper artwork photographs and documents.

The 100 cotton core and backing paper are naturally acid free and lignin free. Conservation mat boards use acid free and lignin free surface and backing papers that adhere to the wood pulp core. Conservation rag mat board offers a good range of color surface papers with the finest quality pigments to provide optimum fade and bleed resistance. It is acid free and lignin free with consistent color fade and bleed resistance and meets the library of congress preservation guidelines for matting framing.

Crescent cardboard is an industry leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality mat boards art products custom framing products cardboards mounting boards and more. Conservation matboard is an alfa cellulose matboard made of pristine virgin fibres. Crescent also provides additional conservation products such as crescent select ultiblack and moorman fabrics. We take pride in every sheet of matboard.

They are guaranteed to have no adverse reaction with artwork for hundreds. Standard mats blank. Your fine art and photography deserve to be preserved. 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.

The 4 and 6 ply mat boards are 100 virgin alpha cellulose fiber acid and lignin free fade and bleed resistant. They protect the artwork from acid burn and degradation for at least 100 years and have a mid range cost. See mat board guide.