Chinese Painting Mounting

An unmounted Chinese painting can not be framed or hung directly. If you want to get a traditional graceful appearance, you can mount your Chinese painting on a hanging scroll; If you want to protect your Chinese painting well from dust and dampness, you can frame it with wood.

Mounting on Silk Brocade is the basic for framing with wood. Chinese mounting helps to restore the artists’ intent and spirit to a vivid look. When framing a Chinese painting with wood, you usually need to firstly mount it on a silk brocade. Normally it will take 4~7 days to finish the mounting process for our professional mounters.

If the Chinese painting is not preserved by mounting or is not framed, it might get creases, tears, or accelerated aging. If you didn’t choose to mount or frame your Chinese painting at our gallery, we suggest you mount or frame your painting with the mounting and framing specialist for Chinese paintings in your local city. If you are going to do it yourself, you need to do more with the following processes:

1. The painting itself can not be directly sticked to the wall or wood panel. You can use two or more plastic clips to hang your Chinese painting, please carefully keep the painting open and flat, and protect the painting in case that it was torn by the wind.
2. Use a little sprinkling can, evenly spray the whole painting until it is just wet.
The Chinese painting is done on Xuan Paper which is made of many plant fibers and it has excellent absorbency of water, ink, and color. So, after the painting soaks up water, the folded or wrinkled paper will become even and smooth, and all the fold lines will disappear.
3. Leave the painting to air dry completely (please don't use a hairdryer or other drying methods, just let the painting dry itself), then you can operate other displaying methods on your Chinese painting(mounting or framing).