Quote Originally Posted by Mike_Oettle View Post
Some ingenious ideas here for putting an A4 document into a format more suited to US measurements.
But one does wonder when the US will finally realise that it will have to join the rest of the world and metricate.
After all, the only two countries outside the 50 states that are not yet metric are Liberia and Burma (or Myanmar, if you prefer).
Regards,
Mike
Measuring systems aside, even if the document were US-standard 8.5"x11", or if A4-sized frames were readily available in the States, I'd still go with an oversized frame with matting, to include a sample of the fabric, perhaps a photo or two, and so on. So I'd be going through this process either way.

As it turns out, I fooled around with a few ideas, plotted out a few layouts on the laptop, and brought actual size photo prints, a swatch of the fabric, and the document with me, to the framing shop, where over the course of an hour and a half, we kicked around the ideas and developed a final layout. We came up with a beautiful double-matted design with dark pine green (velveteen finish) and white (hard gloss finish) mat boards, in a gorgeous dark cherry frame to be built to non-stock custom dimensions, to be mounted behind non-glare glass. We spec'd everything out and saved the design. The project will NOT be at all cheap (some of you would think it insane), so will need to wait until next pay day to get them started building it. But the result will be beautiful.

I'm an American History buff (colonial through revolutionary period), and have been through the custom framing process several times for copies of a number of US founding-era documents (US Constitution, etc.), as well as prints of famous paintings from that era. My home is filled with such. So I know the quality my local framers can produce, and know how good the results will look. I am really looking forward to getting them the cash to get started.

Am I going overboard for this? Absolutely. But why not? My siblings all have children, through whom they've left their mark in the world. Me, I'll leave a tartan on record in Scotland.