F
or decades, we have been making all sorts of picture frames and many 
types of picture framing. And with that, we also did all methods of mounting. Broadly speaking this mounting process can be categorized as wet-mounting or dry-mounting, and in the latter category, self-adhesive foamboards, feature prominently. It's easy to know why. Properly used, these can offer clean, quick and easy permanent mounting in a matter of seconds. Mounting is more fully detailed and explained in our previous post " Picture framing wizardry and the secrets of mounting" but, basically, it means the bonding or glueing of artwork onto a flat surface so that the art stays and remains flat,
7 Reasons why custom picture frames are better than ready-made picture frames
Posted on Category: Buying GuideBy:First, a succinct explanation of what those two frames are. A custom picture frame is a relatively expensive, single,
tailor-made frame, or a bespoke frame, or one made-to-order especially for the Customer by a trained craftsman, to his or her requirements and specifications. A Ready-Made picture frame is much cheaper, one of many thousands, industrially mass-produced with unskilled labour for a common or standard size, regardless of a Customer’s requirements or specifications. That said, let’s discover the very real differences between the two and why in some circumstances the former is preferable to the latter. Custom frames are generally ...
My friends are buying floater frames, what are these? Should I get one?
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Before you rush out buying floater frames just because all you friends seem to be doing so, please do read this post which endeavours to explain what 
these newly-discovered picture frames are. The floater frame evolved from the 1950's picture framing "stripping" style. This style was an attempt to embellish and visually seal, or finish, the appearance of unframed oil paintings on canvas. This involved the fixing of thin wood strips or plywood trims, about 3 to 5mm thick, to the four, external sides of a stretcher frame. However, while this style of picture framing also known as 'Baguette" improved the appearance of the oil ...
Digital photo frames versus traditional photo frames, who’s winning?
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In the contest of digital photo frames versus traditional photo frames the winner seems to be traditional photo frame. It wasn't that long ago, around the year 2000, that digital photo frames first appeared in Australia. We remember still the collective shiver Australian 
picture framers experienced when these first came onto the market. The world was, and still is changing fast. The computer, the internet, the world wide web have and are still continuing to, kill off entire industries. Older, established picture framers well remembered advertising behemoths like Yellow Pages to whom we slavishly bowed and paid tribute to every year. So if technological change has wiped out one of of the world's largest ...