In Reply to: re: Paintings posted by Getaway on Thursday, 4. March 2010 at 10:08 Bali Time:
The shop usually wraps them in corrugated cardboard for me, and sometimes I also had a layer of bubble wrap.
When you check them in at Bali Airport, the staff put Fragile labels on them and they are then loaded in with other items such as surboards, flags, etc.
Thus far, I have brought home 6 paintings on 4 different flights this way, and not once has there been any damage. Maybe I have just been lucky?
The one & only time that I had the canvases rolled, with the wood packed separately, one piece of the framework was taken by customs due to borer, and then we had a terrible struggle to fit the canvases back on to their frame - after my hubby had cut another piece to replace the one taken.
To this day, we still haven't hung them in our stairwell, so now I ALWAYS take them home on the frame.
So if you ever see this lady at Perth Intl Airport struggling to round the rope barriers and columns with a rather large painting/s(I only ever seem to want ones about 1.2m wide x .70 high!!), plus heaps of other luggage (I always prepay for extra kgs)you will know that it is I - LOL!!