We offer 100% acid-free mat board. These mats are perfect for any application including matting your personal photographs, certificates, diploma, or an expensive original. Mats make your pictures / documents shine for greatest impact, but they also serve a protective purpose. Mats create space between your picture and the acrylic or glass front for air to circulate which prevents condensation from building up that can cause mildew or buckling over time.

Terminology:

• Mat Width: Wider mats emphasize the art while creating a highly professional, gallery-quality presentation. We recommend a mat at least twice as wide as the width of the frame
• The Mat Opening / Window Size will be 0.25 inches smaller on each side to fully cover your artwork
• Top Mat: Top layer of a double mat; It has a larger window, which allows a small border of the bottom mat, called the reveal, to be shown
• Bottom Mat: Optional second layer of mat board used in double matting; The window opening of the bottom mat surrounds the artwork
• Bottom/Accent Mat Reveal: Width of the bottom mat, normally 1/4″, 3/8″ & 1/2″
• Mat Outer Size: Also known as frame opening size, matches the frame, plexiglass or backing size of the picture frame