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Where to Buy Mats Wholesale

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Documounts is the best place to buy mats wholesale.  Documounts caters to the needs of artists and photographers who need to buy mats wholesale so that they can sell a large quantity of matted artwork at art festivals and gallery shows.  Buying mats wholesale allows artists and photographers to pass along their savings to their collectors.  This makes art more affordable to buyers, which means more sales for the artists and photographers.  This in turn means more exposure, with more of your art in more people’s homes!  Buying mats wholesale is a win-win situation.

Documounts offers a wide selection of mats.  Whether you need top-of-the-line archival mats, pH neutral mats, or economy mats, you can buy any of these mats wholesale at Documounts.  We also offer mats wholesale in a variety of colors, with a solid core, white core, or black core.  Do you need 6 ply mats wholesale or 8 ply mats wholesale?  Documounts carries those, too!  You can even buy double and triple mats wholesale at Documounts.

To buy mats wholesale, you only need to buy 4 or more of the same custom cut mat to receive a bulk discount.  When you buy more custom cut mats, you will save the more that you buy!  For instance, if you buy 1 pH neutral Crescent Papermat, it will cost you $2.39.  If you buy 4 of the same Crescent Papermat, you will pay $2.08 apiece.  But if you buy 1000 of the same Crescent Papermat, you’ll only pay 62 cents each!  When you buy more mats wholesale, you will save even more.

In addition to buying mats wholesale, you can also buy mount board wholesale at Documounts, too!  Documounts also carries all of the essential supplies that you will need to mat, mount and frame your artwork – from frames to adhesives and much more!

Learn About Do It Yourself Framing

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Do it yourself framing is easier than you might think!  The best thing about do it yourself framing is that it saves you money, so learning do it yourself framing is well worth it in the long run.  Artists and photographers would greatly benefit from learning do it yourself framing, because do it yourself framing will really cut down on costs at the framers.

At Documounts, we offer both custom cut frames and readymade frames.  It is easy to assemble your artwork in readymade frames, because this kind of do it yourself framing only involves 5 easy steps:

  1. Mount your artwork
  2. Mat your artwork
  3. Insert the glazing into the frame
  4. Insert your mounted and matted artwork into the frame
  5. Affix the sawtooth hanger or hanging wire, and voila!

Do it yourself framing with custom cut frames is a bit more complicated than do it yourself framing with readymade frames.  For this type of do it yourself framing, you will need additional supplies.  Custom cut wood frame mouldings will require wood glue for do it yourself framing.  Metal frames come with all of the supplies that you will need for do it yourself framing, although you will need to purchase wire separately.

When you order custom frames from Documounts, we send you clear assembly instructions for do it yourself framing so that you can assembly your frames with ease.  You can buy everything that you will need for do it yourself framing right here at Documounts.  In addition to frames, we sell mat board, mounting board, glazing, and all the tools and hardware that you will need for do it yourself framing.

If do it yourself framing sounds too daunting, we can professionally assemble your frames for a small fee that covers the cost of labor and materials.  You can begin shopping by clicking here for wood frames, metal frames and ready made frames.