Put simply, Conservation Framing employs the use of materials that have been proven to protect and maintain art in as close to its original condition as possible.
How does Conservation Framing help?
Ultraviolet light rays are one of the most dangerous elements that your artwork can encounter. It will not only cause your colors to fade to mere shadows of their forms glory, but will cause the materials themselves to begin to break down right in the frame. Conservation Quality picture framing glass is specially formulated to protect framed works of art from the damaging effects of ultraviolet light.
Also, ordinary pulp-based matboard contains acids and lignins which, over a period of time, damage the artwork they com in contact with. Conservation Quality Artboard is free of all acids, lignins and other impurities found in ordinary "pulp" board. The result is an inert or pH neutral board which will cause no damage to the artwork it encases as time goes by.
