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We'd now like to show you how to process fabrics. This is Art on Fabric that's been, somebody's
brought this back from Australia. Let's just take off the heading. Okay, so we want to
mount this down onto a piece of board. The idea of mounting this down onto a piece of
board; if you just put this into a frame, it's not mounted; it's not physically stuck
down to a board. Because of the weight of the fabric, it's actually going to drop down
into the frame and you'll see it sagging down inside.
Again, because it's fabric, we're actually going to use, rather than dry-mounting tissue,
we're going to use dry-mounting film. We're going to mount this time just onto again a
piece of card; this could be hardboard, MDF, pretty much anything again the substrate that
you want to choose. We've pre-coated the board. Again, we've taken the dry-mounting film,
we've removed one release liner, we've pierced it, we've put it on the board and we've put
it into the press so that we've now got a pre-coated board with a heat-applied glue.
So, again, we're going to take our knife, lift up the release liner on the dry-mount
film. We can pull that release liner all the way off. Again, cleanliness; we must make
sure that there are no bits on the back of the fabric; so it's nice and clean. We can
lay it down onto our adhesive and again this goes into the press; the base of the press
on top of the foam with the silicone release film on the top for approximately; depending
on the thickness of the fabric, it's going to be in there for about three and a half
minutes. So, as you can see, this has now been processed.
It's out of the press. It's been permanently stuck down onto the board, nice and flat,
ready for framing and, again, as we can see, it's not going to drop; once it's in the frame,
it's not going to sag down.