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  2. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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    In the picture framing industry, a mat (or matte, or mount in British English) is a thin, flat piece of paper -based material included within a picture frame, which serves as additional decoration and to perform several other, more practical functions, such as separating the art from the glass. Putting mats in a frame is called matting, a term ...

  3. Cabinet card - Wikipedia

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    After 1900, card photographs generally had a much larger area surrounding the print quite often with an embossed frame around the image on heavy, gray card stock. Last Used: The cabinet card still had a place in public consumption and continued to be produced until the early 1900s and quite a bit longer in Europe. The last cabinet cards were ...

  4. Foamcore - Wikipedia

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    Board of paper-faced rigid foam. Sheet of foamboard. Foamcore, foam board, or paper-faced foam boardis a lightweight and easily cut material used for mountingof photographic prints, as backing for picture framing, for making scale models, and in painting. It consists of a board of polystyrenefoam clad with an outer facing of paper on either ...

  5. Greeting card - Wikipedia

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    The first is the photo insert card which is designed to display a sender's own photo. Depending on the card design, the photo is stuck to the card, clipped to the card or slid into a pocket in the card into which a hole has been cut to act as a frame. The second type is the printed photo card, in which the photo is combined with artwork and ...

  6. Tintype - Wikipedia

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    Tintype. A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin' (though not actually tin-coated), coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion.

  7. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    A flexo print is achieved by creating a mirrored master of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material. A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an anilox roll. The print surface then rotates, contacting the print material which transfers the ink.

  8. Aperture card - Wikipedia

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    An aperture card is a type of punched card with a cut-out window into which a chip of microfilm is mounted. Such a card is used for archiving or for making multiple inexpensive copies of a document for ease of distribution. The card is typically punched with machine-readable metadata associated with the microfilm image, and printed across the ...

  9. Collage - Wikipedia

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    Collage. Collage (/ kəˈlɑːʒ /, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together"; [1]) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a "pasting" together.)