How does PictureFrame.com.au work?

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Our picture frames website is all about about picture frames, photo frames, poster frames,  browsing-at-online-picture-frames picture framing and picture framers. broadly speaking, It offers customers two kinds of picture framing. The first is offers Ready-Made Picture Frames and the second, Picture Frame Kits.  The site provides visitors and shoppers with information to help them decide which of these two kinds of picture frames could best suit their needs.  Of the many factors that Customers will and do consider when choosing a picture frame, in our experience, is price. It has always been and will always be,  the foremost one in people's minds.  And yes, service and quality sometimes do get ...

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How to frame Indian Silk Paintings

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 Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconAh! Indian Silk Paintings! We would be quite surprisedframed-indian-silik-painting if anyone did not know of them or about them. Certainly, we, as picture framers are  well acquainted with these works of art, or at least, their facsimili.  Bold, beautiful, elaborate, colourful, intricate and highly detailed, exuding, if not dripping, in and with timeless Muslim, Buddhist, Hindus, Muslim, Jain and Sikh traditions, folklore, fairy tales and storytelling .  Alas, let's begin by the stating the obvious, Indian silk painting refers to paintings painted on silk, muslin, very thin cotton or cloth. The  silk fabric, called Paat in eastern India, Pattu in southern India and Resham in  northern part, is a natural, organic, fibre made from  the mulberry silkworm ...

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Mounting boards versus Mat boards explained

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconLike all occupations and professions, picture framing has its own specific terms, vocabulary, acid-free-matboard-offcuts taxonomy and nomenclature.  This is not surprising considering that one of the oldest picture frames ever made  was  found in Egypt and is thought to  date back to at least  2,500 years ago.  So far as Australia goes, at least some, picture frames, picture framing  workers and artisans first arrived to Australia with the coming of the 1st Fleet in way back in 1788.  Inheriting from the traditions  of the mother country, Australians both borrowed and inherited the British picture framing vocabulary form the old country.  One of these was the locution of a specific component of a picture frame, namely the ... 

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Do you sell to the public?

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconAbout twice a month for umpteen years, we have fielded many telephone calls often heralded by the now familiar customers-buying-picture-frames question, "Do you sell to the public? ".  The short answer is YES! In fact, we always have, and for many years. Retail only, never wholesale. Thus, we doth ponder, why the question?  Most likely, this all harks back to the "old" days when retailers and wholesalers were quite ran and operated as distinct and disparate entities. Shopkeepers kept their shops retailing directly to the public and wholesalers ran factories to only wholesale to their shopkeeper customers. In this traditional, but rapidly fading commercial or business model,  wholesalers, or distributors, were ...

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Should I really be getting get my souvenir Asian painting stretched and then framed?

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We generally say, no, you don't really need to get your Asian painting stretched and then framed .  Frequently, when they vimitation-of-original-oil-paintingisit us, they say that they have just returned from an Asian holiday, from Bali, Thailand or India. They tell us that they have  a valuable, original, often large oil painting that needs framing. Frequently, they seem to have been regaled with tall tales of the worth of the paintings  they have bought.  They appear to believe, or are under the impression, that their oil painting is quite valuable and that it  should be stretched first and then framed.

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Best Unsung Hero Ever: The backing board

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconWhy write about picture frame backing boards?  Truth be known, we were scratching for ideas for this month's post. We asked the lads for suggestions for a new post but most told Picture-frame-backingus that they felt that we must have written just about everything there is to know about picture frames. And that seemed to be so until someone asked about backing boards, had we ever written anything about them? The answer was in the negative, and do, here we go, let's discuss backing boards, the kinds used in picture framing to make picture frames.  To begin with, and so far as the picture framing occupation is concerned, backing boards, backer boards, back boards, backs and and backings are all synonyms of the same ...

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What’s inside a picture frame?

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Yes, " What’s inside a picture frame? is one of the questions we get asked fairly frequently.  The wordinthe-components-inside-a-picture-frame.jpgg of the question can change from person to person but Customers want to know the same thing.  And this is because they are curious of the components of a frame and the  names of the parts of  a picture frame.  We may get asked:“What do you put at the back?” , or: “What will you put my picture on?” and even: “Will you make something so that my picture won’t fall off?”, and so on and so forth. The reason this question gets asked is because people know that a thin piece of paper like a poster can’t hold up by itself and wonder what and how it is being ...

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I found your picture frames online!

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconJust about every other time we answer the phone we are greeted with a "I found you online!", or, user-finding-picture-frames-online " I found your picture frames online!" , as the introduction to a Customer's telephone inquiry. While this is stating the obvious, users find us online because we have a web site, because its contents are published online, because search engines display these, and thence people find it!  What is not so obvious are the many, electronic,  processes, protocols and procedures used to make all this possible.  In this post we will endeavour to explain what and how this works.  Perhaps the very first step is to fire up one's PC, load up one or more programmes and then create web pages ..

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Yes! We stock the big size frames!

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconIt's only a little while ago that we started noticing ourselves saying " Yes! We stock the big size frames!"  more and more often to our Customers' calls, and so,  here's this post!  Now, we've always stocked " bighuge-picture-frame-bigger-than-A0-size sizes" frames, for years, actually, but how come we're being asked this  more frequently?  Our theory is that is due mainly to two, important, factors.  The first is that there are less and less of these variety stores and discount shops around.  Many have simply stopped trading and closed down because their small business proprietors can't make enough money to pay expensive rents and high taxes, let alone  paying themselves even a basic wage. The first factor is the easiest to ... 

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Entomology Shadow Boxes

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconAbout a year or so ago we began experiencing a renewed entomology-wooden-shadow-boxinterest and higher sales in our lovely wooden shadow box frames, and it wasn't until we started chatting with Customers that we learned that our increased sales were due to the new, local trend, and subsequent demand for,  Entomology Shadow Boxes!  And what are these exactly, you might say?  Well, frames for bugs, or to display insects, invertebrates and even small creatures.  It seems that this new craze is all about Customers wanting to buy 3-dimensional frames inside which are mounted spiders, scorpions ...

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