MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR BUTYRATE WALL SEALS
- The seals displayed on this web page and our literature are for reference only. They do not infer any endorsement by the government agency or groups listed or displayed.
- Seals are vacuum formed from polished gold butyrate, polished silver butyrate and white butyrate.
- Seals are custom crafted and detailed in butyrate plastic, foam filled with poster board back and saw tooth hanger,painted and custom detailed.
Viewing Photos of Seals
- Colors in photographs are different because of lighting used to photograph our seals and screen colors when these photographs are viewed.
- Lighting and background colors used to photograph seals cause colors to appear differently.
- We use Pantone[PMS] colors for our seals. We can not use gradient coloration using spot PMS colors.
- Metallic butyrate color change from material available by our suppliers. This will change how the seals appear.
| Initial Art Work | Artist Concepts for Seals |
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- We were given a high resolution photo of the seal on the Resolution Desk gifted by Queen Victoria.
- They gave us wording they desired to have on the seal and asked if we could use the colors used on the Presidential seal.
- Ideas from artist about how seal should look
- Make changes for letter spacing in outer border
| Artist Colors | Final Art for Customer's Approval |
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- We use Pantone PMS colors for painting our seals
- Final art with colors identified and materials used for customer's approval.
Mold Preparations
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- Create Master
- Pour mold
- Sand and prepare mold
- put holes to vacumn butyrate skin around new mold
Vacumn Form Butyrate Skin and Paint Seal
- Fog & wipe
- Rim Color & wipe
- Background Color & wipe
- Mask & screen
- Hand-painted Areas
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Foam Seal Skin and Add Back
- Foam fill back & let cure
- Cut Seal to proper thickness
- Put cardboard back on seal
- Put saw tooth hanger & label on back
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Completed Seal
- Inspected for color and other imperfections
- Individually packaged
- Pack in carton for shipping to customer
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Color Using Gold Butyrate vs Painted
- Using the metalized butyrate, gold or silver, can make the seal look more appealing when displayed.
- The left seal used the metalized gold to replace the yellow in the original artwork, creating a more suble look.
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