How to make a passepartout with your own hands for handmade paintings?

When you embroider, write, create pictures, it is important to give them a finished look. That is why handicraftsmen pay special attention to design. In the baguette workshop the pictures are made professionally, but at times not cheap. So let's see how to make a mat with your own hands.

What is it for?

Passepartout is cardboard in the form of a quadrilateral, circle or oval with an opening (of the same shape), where a picture or photo is inserted. It is superimposed on the picture and is closed with a frame with or without glass. For professional artists and designers the passepartout serves as a "honor board", that is, it is left on the author's signature.

Its goal - 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, the frame and frame of the same shades will suit. But if a room with pink wallpaper, then how to make a frame, a passepartout? In this case, the most suitable is a double decoration of green and light pink color and a mahogany frame with a golden pattern.

With the help of a cardboard frame, you can achieve the desired size of the picture. For example, you have embroidery of non-standard sizes, and no frame can not come up. Therefore, choose the most advantageous by color frame and produce by its size a frame with a cutout for embroidery.

1 way: how to make a mat with your own hands

• Choose a cardboard of the right color for the size of the frame. On the reverse side of the frame there is a cardboard sheet, the size of which makes the outer edges of the mat.
• Next, determine the size of the internal hole under the embroidery. It will be clearly seen if you put embroidery on the cardboard (pinch the edges with needles) and cover it with glass from the frame. Then you will decide with the color, and with the size of the mat. Standard from the sides and top is left to 5 centimeters, and from the bottom to 6 centimeters.
• Cut the hole in the mat. It is better to use a thick wooden board and cutter.
• Now add up the whole composition: the bottom of the frame, embroidery, mat, glass and frame. Turn and clamp the studs.

Before you make a mat with your own hands, embroidery should be washed, patted, stretched on cardboard. To do this, cut out the cardboard to the dimensions of the embroidery, then with clerical cliches, fix the position of the embroidery on the front side. And on the reverse side, fasten the edges with threads in a zigzag stitch or with a double-sided tape. And then proceed to the design of the picture.

2 way: how to make a passepartout for a picture or photo

Figure and photograph have a more subtle structure than embroidery. In addition, it's easier to work with them: just make a frame and put everything in the frame. You can make a simple color design of paper, but then lose the character of the image. It is better to emphasize the individuality of the picture:

• You can make a three-dimensional application in the tone of the image. For example, in the course of spring and summer there will be flowers, leaves, bees, ladybugs on cardboard.
• Passepartout can be made from rags of different shades.
• Embroider it according to the available scheme or your design.
• Decorate the frame with thematic material: beads, beads, buttons, seashells, leaves, sticks, only first treat them with varnish.

So, how to make a passepartout with your own hands to highlight the nature of the picture? Remember only one rule: you can draw up your work many times. For example, in the winter melancholy you decided to create a spring mood and decorated the passepartout with dandelions, and in summer you wanted to add strawberries to the frame. Experiment - and eventually you will learn how to make a picture professionally the first time!