Itoya Art Portfolios

I finally got around to buying my first cel book. I ordered an 11 X 14 and it is HUGE. It has to be bigger than it says. It is also very high quality. I had a pretty hard time figuring out what kind of portfolio to buy to protect my cels ect. but I don't worry anymore. If anyone is looking for a good cel book I just thought I should recommend Itoya. :)

Most of us use Itoyas to protect our favorite pieces of artwork. However, when it comes to protecting paper artwork, like shikishi and genga/douga sets, it seems that everyone has their own method. Itoyas are too expensive for most of us to justify using for everything, so everyone has their own method of conservation.

11x14 should be enough to hold most standard sized cels and backgrounds.

What do you use for genga and shikishi, cutiebunny? I've been using itoyas all this time, but I'm defintiely reaching the point where I just have too many genga sheets to be able to keep them in books. Haven't figured out a good method for storing them yet (space is a huge issue for me). I'm thinking I'm probably going to need some sort of archival box or something, but I don't know what to start looking for.

not sure what I'm looking for at this point as I still don't have that many cels yet but I ordered 17X22 portfolio,18x24 image protector and a 20x26in portfolio carrier for my oversize stuff yesterday. although I measured the portfolio I have and it looks to me they're exactly the size as described and not a centimeter more down to the margin area.

I use B4 sized binders that are similar to Itoyas, just without the black sheet of paper (and the $$$ price tag). They're made of the same polypropylene material, and then I also bag the paper item in either polypropylene or polyethylene bags prior to placing inside each pocket. Each page can hold one shikishi, so depending on how many pages are in the binder, I put 10-15 shikishi in each folder. I also further divide this up, so, I have original sketches done on regular paper in their own separate folder, and those items done on postcard stock are in a specially designed postcard (photo) polypropylene binder.

With backgrounds and background/timesheet sets, I'll place two sets per pocket. With genga, depending on the size of the cut, I'll put 1 cut per pocket. But if it's a really large cut, then I'll spread it out so that there's only a few sheets in each pocket.