Float Mount Floating Art Frame

This is a very common way of mounting your artwork when you do not want a mat to cover the edge of the paper.

Float mount floating art frame.

We call this method of framing floating for two reasons. But if you want to have glass you will need to make sure your frame is deep enough for the float mounted art. We have 7 colors that can be used with artwork up to 3 4 deep. Float mounting is where all the edges of the art print or picture are exposed and then art is separated from the glass with a plastic spacer.

With float mounting the artwork will look like it s hovering or floating over the backing board. First we attach your art to an acid free foam core lift hidden behind the work but mounted to a supporting white mat. Second we use a spacer to create space between the plexiglass and the surface of your work. The art appears as if it were floating in the frame because you can t see it mounted to anything.

When a piece is floated its raw edges are visible as opposed to mounting where the mount covers the edges with the crisp lines of the card and when you look at it from any angle there is no sign of anything which fixes it in position. Your art will float in the frame. You may choose to attach your artwork directly to the mat board with t hinges. Or to cast a more dramatic shadow first attach the artwork to acid free foam core so that the artwork sits a bit higher in the frame.

Float mounting means your art work photograph or watercolour is suspended inside the picture frame. Perfect for displaying gallery wrap canvases where the staples aren t visible these wood picture frames allow you to easily attach a canvas to the stretcher bars with screws. Just drop canvas into the the frame secure in back with the included brackets and screws and hang. 1 5 deep unfinished doug fir 1 5 deep unfinished maple 1 5 deep black 1 25 deep black 1 25 deep.

Work on paper by kerri rosenthal floated in our black gallery frame. Floating or float mounting means that your art will sit on top of the matting as opposed to being partially overlapped by a mat or the lip of the frame. Float mounting creates a seamless presentation. Your art will float in the frame.

Float or floater frames are so named because the illusion they create is that your artwork is floating within the frame instead of being covered by it.