Conservation picture framing is a specialized, yet semi-industrial art. It is practised by a bewildering array of qualified and unqualified experts, all possessing and proffering a multitude or views, standards, opinions and qualifications. Nevertheless, in spite if of the diversity of views, skills and practices, there are several obvious, unambiguous and distinct framing methods and materials which should be anathema to any half-decent, self-respecting, practising conservation picture framer. First of these methods is using any kind of household or industrial tapes to tape, or hold into place, customers' ...