When embroidering, writing, creating pictures, it is important to give them a finished look. That is why needlewomen pay special attention to design. In a framing workshop, paintings are professionally designed, but sometimes not cheap. Therefore, we will see how to make a passe-partout with your own hands.
What is it for?
Passepartout is a cardboard in the form of a quadrangle, circle or oval with a hole (of the same shape) where a picture or photo is inserted. It is superimposed on the picture and closed with a frame with or without glass. For professional artists and designers, Passe-partout is a “board of honor", that is, it leaves an author’s signature on it.
Its goal is to create harmony between the picture, the color of the frame and the design of the room. For example, for an embroidered picture of a spring garden with a predominance of pink and green tones, a frame and a frame of the same shades are suitable. But if there is a room with pink wallpaper, then how to make a frame, passepartout? In this case, double decoration of green and light pink and a mahogany frame with a golden pattern is most suitable.
Using a cardboard frame, you can achieve the desired size of the picture. For example, you have custom sizes of embroidery, and no frame can fit. Therefore, select the most advantageous color frame and produce a frame with a cutout for embroidery according to its size.
1 way: how to make a passe-partout with your own hands
- Choose the cardboard of the desired color for the size of the frame. On the reverse side of the frame there is a cardboard sheet, the dimensions of which make the outer edges of the mat.
- Next, determine the size of the inner hole for embroidery. It will be clearly visible if you put embroidery on cardboard (pin the edges with needles) and cover with glass from the frame. Then you decide on the color, and the size of the mat. As a rule, 5 centimeters are left from the sides and top, and 6 centimeters from the bottom.
- Cut a hole in the mat. It is better to use a thick wooden board and a cutter.
- Now add up the whole composition: the bottom of the frame, embroidery, passe-partout, glass and frame. Turn and clamp the cloves.
Before you make a passe-partout with your own hands, you need to wash the embroidery, iron, pull on cardboard. To do this, cut cardboard according to the size of the embroidery, then with stationery cloves, fix the position of the embroidery on the front side. And on the back, fasten the edges with threads in a zigzag seam or with double-sided tape. And then proceed to the design of the picture.
2 way: how to make a mat for a drawing or photo
The picture and photograph have a finer structure than embroidery. In addition, it is easier to work with them: just make a frame and insert everything into a frame. You can make a simple color design of paper, but then the character of the image is lost. It is better to emphasize the individuality of the picture:
- You can make volumetric applications in the tone of the image. For example, during the spring and summer there will be flowers, leaves, bees, ladybugs on cardboard.
- Passepartout can be made from flaps of different colors.
- Embroider it according to your pattern or design.
- Decorate the frame with thematic material: beads, beads, buttons, shells, leaves, sticks, only process them with varnish first.
So, how to make passepartout with your own hands to highlight the nature of the picture? Remember only one rule: you can arrange your work many times. For example, in the winter blues you decided to create a spring mood and decorated the passepartout with dandelions, and in the summer you wanted to add strawberries to the frame. Experiment - and over time, you will learn how to make pictures professionally the first time!