Ikea, the Range.
Sure it's Perspex (aka acrylic)? Pretty tough stuff normally.as the Perspex cracks easily.
Sure it's Perspex (aka acrylic)? Pretty tough stuff normally.
- Hi Foggy - I understand that there is a good framer called "Picture It" in Wadworth…. A local framers closed down last year so had to start looking for other options.
I would prefer glass but accept that acrylic is now mainstream.
Puzzled by this because the Ribbas I've looked at on Ikea's website are billed as having polystyrene glazing (cheaper and softer than acrylic).the other two are newer with acrylic.
Puzzled by this because the Ribbas I've looked at on Ikea's website are billed as having polystyrene glazing (cheaper and softer than acrylic).
I've got three 16x12 prints hanging next to one another in my living room in Ribba frames. The oldest one is glazed with glass, the other two are newer with acrylic. I can't tell the difference.
More annoying was that they changed the position of the hanging gubbins from the glass version to the acrylic, so getting them lined up was more faff that it needed to be, but that's another story...
To my mind there are two basic issues to do with picture glazing - one is safety and the other is vision. Plastic's likely to be less injurious, say if a picture fell from the wall onto a child's head. But over time as pictures get dusted / cleaned, plastic accrues micro-scratches and its clarity is affected. For this reason I'm all for glass.
I'm sort of in favour of supplying prints unmounted and unframed especially if a customer is at a distance - after all if they're to employ a framer then the framer can do the mount at the same time, and it minimises the postal size. But of course the option requires customer take-up.
Until this time with the 700 x 500mm frames the biggest I used was indeed 500 x 400mmCurrently my most-used off-the-peg frame size is 400 x 500 and you can get aluminium frames with 'real' glass for £12 including cariage and vat. That's without a mount. Seems reasonable. The quality's good.