- Clean the glass without smearing.
- Check for scratches
- Check positioning of image in mount (if any)
- Secure un-mounted artwork to a support board leaving bottom of board slightly proud to carry the weight. This will minimise kinks and cockles.
- Place glass on sandwich comprising the image, mount or support board and hard backboard.
- If sandwich is free of dust, overlay the rim of the frame on to it. (If the frame is blemished the fault will probably be less noticeable on the bottom).
- Check that the artwork is square and centred in the frame.
- Turn over frame and sandwich and secure down with supplied tabs. (if these are missing squeeze in panel pins).
- Seal round the back of the frame with tape to discourage flies and atmospheric pollution.
- If the picture is to hang, measure down one third from the top and screw in screw eyes to each side of frame and tie cord across them.
- Plates are a more secure wall fixing alternative and a strut back will make smaller pictures freestanding.
N.B. Where the artwork and glazing touch they may eventually bond together never to be parted (especially photographs).