Picture Frames, Picture Framing and Picture Framers' Blog
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Most of our blogs and posts here are a direct result our interaction with our Customers and the feedback we receive from them, for which we are grateful. One sunny ( sometimes a rarity here in Melbourne ) Saturday morning a young mum visited us bringing an A3 frame with a broken glass. She asked if had a frame to match, which we did, the frame being a pretty much standard 3x2 cms box moulding picture frame profile. We showed her one of our frames and she was on the cusp on buying it when she asked, pretty much by way of a ...
Hmmm ... Ordering picture frames online responsibly ? What’s the responsibility for, or about, most folks would say. You place an online order, you pay, you get your stuff and that’s it. There are no duties, obligations or responsibilities, right? Wait, not so fast, we would respond. While not a face-to-face personal interaction, ordering online is a human activity that does carry some responsibilities. This is because we approach and interact with others asking them to do something for us, even if it’s electronically and not personally. And when interact with others under any circumstances, it pays to be nice, doesn’t it? Have you ever found that ...
Ah, ordering art online, it’s something that most of us have done or will do at one time or another. And by art, we certainly don’t mean the crypto art being flogged online nowadays which isn’t just cryptic but basically incomprehensible to most folks. We mean art on paper, mostly being drawings, limited editions, lithographs, serigraphs, watercolours, gouaches or small oil paintings. In times gone by, Customers would visit art shows, attend art galleries or visit artists’ studios to buy art. And just as often, they might visit their local picture framer and see what posters there might be in the print bin. We fondly remember Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Peter Pan, Superman, Jaws, Mad Max, The Man from ...
On the subject of collecting your new picture frames we need to quote Confucius. Indeed it is he who is reputed to have been the sage who first immortalized the famous dictum “ By three methods we may learn wisdom: the first, by reflection, which is noblest; the second, by imitation, which is easiest; and the third by experience, which is the bitterest." And this is pretty much how it is when we witness how some Customers are arranging the collection and transport of the picture frames we’ve framed for them. Ergo: a) We reflect on how they do this, resolving never to do what they do, b) we never imitate what they do, lest we wreck the frames and c) we practice doing the opposite of what are doing, which may be harder and ...
The idea for a blog on picture framing mounting came from a very pleasantly surprised Customer some time ago. The gentleman in question had brought in a very rumpled, markedly creased, badly folded, extensively dog-eared and rather aged, large movie poster for framing. All the Customer required was for the poster to be put in a frame and look straight and flat. He didn’t want conservation, didn’t care for preservation or how we did it and, and, oh, yes, he was on a tight budget a couldn’t spend “too much on it”. So we suggested clear glass and a frame with a price ...
So! You’re a poor and starving artist who really needs to frame his or her work. It doesn’t matter whether it’s for your first exhibition or for a customer, or just to sell it, you just need you art in a frame. You’ve been selling sell your work as it is, unframed, with zero presentation effort . Alas, you’ve since discovered the harsh truth that art won’t frame itself and it’s harder to sell itunframed or without a picture frame. If it’s just on a piece of paper, it’ll look pretty unappealing, no matter whichever masterpiece it’ll purport to display. You’ve also been around the traps long enough to know...
We venture to say that at least every household has some shadow box picture frames hung on a wall that will make the beholder sniffle, if not cry, in a happy, emotional response. Typically the framed item might be a photograph, a note, a document or an object marking or commemorating a birth, a newborn wristband, cast of baby hands or feet, a christening, a school report or something and anything just as close or as dear to a family’s heart. This brings us to one inescapable truth of life, all children will eventually grow up, and become adults. And adults love their birthdays, just as much as children ...
Indeed, February has come around, again. This is the month when the Australian Government Public Service Graduate Program starts once more, as it has, for decades. It is needed because, truly, the public sector is a huge, employee-hungry, employer. The Federal Government alone has 14 official Government Departments in Australia. In alphabetical order these are, Attorney-General's Department, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Department of Defence, Department of Education Skills and Employment, Department of Finance, Department of Foreign ...
When Customers asks us if black picture frames are still fashionable we often answer with this old aphorism “Black is the new black”. In fact, picture frames with black mouldings is our single and most popular product. Which bring us to that old conundrum, the colour black isn’t a really colour! Contradictory? Well, check out any rainbow. You ought to be able to sequentially see, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet but not black. This is because black is darkness, or the absence of light and not on the visible colour spectrum. Technically then, neither black nor white are ...
Just before Christmas, a lady Customer brought a medium-sized, black-and-white print which had been wrapped and stored away from sunlight since 1967. She was excited at having discovered the print which was the last of a set of three her artist father had created, and now wanted it framed in a "safe" picture frame. Alas, the set of 3 prints was somehow mislaid and became separated over the years, and only the first 2 prints had been framed.The third and last print was the one brought in to us for farming and the Customer wanted us match the framing of the other two. As she ...