Thanks for the comment, but I don't think so. The wood frame is
perfectly flat. They knew how to make non-warpable wood frames
centuries ago. Just visit any museum. Besides, any measurable
shrinking (which is what it would have to be) would have broken the
glass. What I'm more concerned with is bowing a print without
introducing wrinkles. They may have bowed the paper first (or bought
it that way) and somehow exposed the image on it.
Roger
On 9 Dec 2007, at 8:00 PM, Mark Blackwell wrote:
Id also suggest another possibility to consider. If the print and
frame is that old its possible that the bowing was not a result of
what anyone did. It is possible that it is the result of the
warping of the wood of the frame over time causing a bow. I sure
couldn't think of an easy way to make that happen.
Roger Eichhorn <eichhorn@xxxxxx> wrote: I have an antique oval
frame that has a bowed glass in it. It
displays a tinted B&W print of a child and appears to be something
from the late 19th century. The child's costume is certainly of that
era. The print is bowed to match the curvature of the glass. I
don't intend to take the photo out to replace it with something else,
but I have another similar frame that's empty that I might want to
fill someday. My question is, how would I go about bowing a print to
match the curvature of the glass? I suppose at one time, they had
molds, perhaps of plaster, to accomplish the task.
Roger
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