Embellishing Mats with Surface Designs

French matting -- pale washes of color surrounded by ink lines -- is a hallmark of European mat decoration. Learn how to produce elegant mats using traditional French Matting materials and techniques. All the materials you need are in the kit. The kit includes:

Will rule clean, sharp lines. Includes a line gauge to set the width of your line.

Black Star Matte (matte finish with no light reflection) India Ink is best on matboard, illustration board and canvas. Ideal for creating decorative lines on the face of a mat. Use in combination with ruling pen to enhance mats.

To find the center of any line, just place the ruler on any orientation point so that the same measurement appears to the left and right of the "0". Calibrated in 16ths and 32nds. Great for multiple openings and oblique angle matting.

For cutting, piercing, scoring, scraping, slicing, slitting and trimming. Aluminum handle. 5" long, 5/16" diameter. For light to medium work. Includes one blade. Uses #11 blade.

Portable mat cutter works independently of other systems. Cuts beveled ovals and circles from 3" x 4½" up to 20" x 23". Great for multiple opening mats. Produces frame shop quality results and is the choice of many professionals.

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Unique push-pull style cutters that cut decorative V-Grooves in the surface of the mat. Designed for use with the Simplex Plus Mat Cutter, but can be used with other Logan Mat Cutters with the use of an Adapter. Includes five #1258 blades.

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Adapts the #703 V-Groove Mat Cutter to operate on the Model #301 Compact Mat Cutter. To allow owners of the Compact Cutter to cut surface V-Grooves.

Unique push-pull style cutters that cut decorative V-Grooves in the surface of the mat. Works with production stops on Logan professional mat cutting systems including Logan 650, 655 and 660.

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