2mm Plain Glass, although relatively inexpensive, has disadvantages: it is reflective, allows the majority of ultraviolet light to pass through to the artwork, is breakable, heavy and has slight green to blue colouration.
A variety of increasingly popular, specialist glasses and acrylics can eliminate some or all of these disadvantages if they are seen as a problem.
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Using Anti Reflection Glass can eliminate ca.99% of reflection (unedited photo)
Ultra violet light can have a harmful effect on paper and pigments used in an artwork. Plain Glass has some effect in reducing the amount of ultra violet reaching framed pieces but now UV filtering glass by TruVue and Schott and acrylic by Artshield and Acrylite is available.
Anti reflection glass by TruVue and Schott has a microscopic coating that reduces reflection to a minimum allowing the artwork to be viewed more easily from any angle and in difficult lighting situations. Particularly recommended for darker images.
Acrylic has the advantage of being lighter and less breakable, an important consideration if children are around. It also has zero colouration. Ordinary acrylics are prone to scratching but we also have scratch-resistant Artshield acrylic available.
Scratch resistant Artshield acrylic
