Like all occupations and professions, picture framing has its own specific terms, vocabulary, 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 ...