How To Make A French Mat

A new mat for panini.

How to make a french mat.

Traditional french matting is an embellishment technique used in the past mostly for engravings and botanicals. Silicon mat or parchment paper. They have a reputation of being temperamental but this post will answer all your french macaron questions and outline tips for beginners to make perfect french macarons at home. You can use a regular silicon sheet or the ones meant for macarons both work well.

While making french macarons at home may sound hard they can be very simple and easy to make. To prepare a new french style mat for panini s st. Emonstrated by pete bingham gcf guild certified framer creator of the everest range of paints inks and powders. French mats followed in the 19th century.

It started as several sheets of paper of different sizes piled up in order to protect the painting. Tips tricks guide to a perfect french macaron 1. The english mats created at this time were similar to those from france but at times the english mats were dark with opaque lines a style which worked well in dark interiors and in contrast with the maple and gold frames that were popular. Now it is used to give depth to the mount or image.

Peter s the basilica and the piazza an 18th century italian etching colored by hand with watercolor and gouache the mat maker and curator first selected an appropriate color mat board that would be sympathetic to the appearance of the artwork. I recommend using a silicon mat. Some bakers prefer using the silicon mat and some prefer the parchment paper. To view our range of everest pastel powders for tinting washline mounts click.