When black is the new black …

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconWhen Customers asks us if black picture frames are still fashionable we often answer with this old aphorism “Black is the new black”.  collage-of-black-custom-picture-framesIn 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  ...  

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Is there an anti-yellowing, “safe” picture frame ?

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Just before Christmas, a lady Customer brought a medium-sized, black-and-white print which had beenpicture-framing-customer-shocked-at-artwork-acid-burn 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 ...   

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