Matboard Help Center

Do you have questions about all the different types of matboard available? Then you've found your way to the right place.

What are Crescent Regular Mats? Crescent Regular Mats are the largest grouping of matboards in the Crescent line of boards. They are boards made from wood pulp. Buffered Acid-Free Pulp Core & Backing Paper. Thickness 0.052 - 0.060. A proven, consistent quality matboard line with an extensive color range. Provides excellent protection for a majority of framing needs. Crescent matboards are also suitable as colored drawing boards and are responsive to acrylic, pen & ink, felt markers, pastels, crayon and watercolors as well as rubber cement.

What are Rag Mat 100's? Classic Rag Mat "100" is 100% Cotton, Acid & Lignin-Free, Solid Color, Extra Rigid, Special Surface Sizing for French Matting and Art Media. The big difference is that the color is throughout. When you bevel cut the mat the color is the same through-out the all cotton mat. Because they are made from cotton they cut easier.

What are Blackcore Mats? Black core Matboard is buffered Acid-Free Black Pulp Core and Backing Paper. Thickness 0.052-0.060. Dark gray lining paper eliminates black rub off.

What are Whitecore Mats? White Core Matboard provides aesthetic and design benefits of a bright white bevel with the affordability of regular matboard. Crescent calls it non-conservation; however, it, too, is buffered with calcium carbonate and whiteness is maintained through an equivalent 100 years of accelerated aging as verified by independent laboratory testing using TAPPI tests T-452, T-544.

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