Yes. We do have several pictures and references on this site about the picture framing of football and other sports' jumpers, guernseys, jerseys or tops. But to expand, yes, we do picture frame football jumpers and also publish online or our prices information for the 3 most popular framing options. We only use quality methods and acid-free materials for this specialized picture .. framing and can incorporate into the picture frame photos, medals, ribbons, letters, engraved plaques and ... other items if required.
The corporate, black box frame we use allow us to put spacers under the mat so as to give the framed jumper or article that lovely, 3-dimensional or "shadow-box" framed look. We don't recommend using the 1-dimensional look. This method requires nearly as much work but will end up with the framed jumper looking "lifeless" or indeed, "flat" . If required we can glaze the artwork with special, UV-protective glass.
This will block about 98% of the damaging Ultra-Violet rays and greatly enhance the preservation of valuable items. We ask of Customers how they would like to display the item. This may involve making special folds to display particular features such as a front team name or logo, a rear player number, or other significant characteristic. Often, sports tops are prized and valuable collectibles as there may have been very few signed or autographed by the now-deceased players at particular games, times and venues.
If your top, guernsey or jersey is valuable, be sure to ask your picture framer how he will mount the item to the frame. Far too many good jerseys have been spoiled, damaged or valued by dodgy mounting methods or shonky picture framing practices. Picture framing abuses include mounting items directly on MDF, or gluing, stapling, masking, nailing, paper clipping, wiring, taping and, (yes, we've seen it) bonding with Araldite !! Below after a few self-explanatory and self-evident picture framing abuse photographs:
When we mount our customers' sports tops, we use none of the above methods. We instead pin the item with about half a dozen, good-quality, nickel-plated, alloy dressmaker's pins. These will not rust, discolour or damage the cloth or fabric of the item. We do not sew or stitch these items as this requires much more puncturing or holing than pinning. Sports tops are usually lightweight and pinning does not cause tensions or stresses to the fabric.
It's also a very strong and secure method as we've never had one fall out or drop down. No other fastening device is used and should one of our framed tops need removing, any framer de-frame and de-mount the framed item in a few minutes.
My family is really involved with football and we’re Collingwod fanatics. We get a lot of AFL footy jumpers framed, not just of the Pies but also of other clubs. Because we have so many ( we also buy and sell on eBay) we need to keep the picture framing prices low. So for cheapie footy jumpers we buy DYO kits from Sydney for $125 and we put the jumper in ourselves. For the better stuff or the quality football jumpers we have to get them fully custom picture framed. Unfortunately no two football jumpers are the same size or will stretch equally. That means that each picture frame works out a bit bigger or smaller than the other because the jumpers will stretch out to different sizes. We have an Asian framer in Sunshine who does ours for $199 cash but we can’t get cheaper than that for a reasonable picture framing job. By reasonable I mean a wood, not plastic, box frame, shadow box mats, nicely stretched and pinned jumper and an overall clean tidy, professional finish with no dirt, fingerprints or scuff marks.
Picture framing jerseys is a tough one for do-it-yourself people, even if they’re handy-persons (man or woman) because it’s so hard to get the jumper to look right. I did try making a frame for a relative of mine with a kit frame but even that, at $120 wasn’t that cheap and it was very, very fiddly to get it to look right. The problem seems to be that no two jerseys stretch out alike and therefore it’s hard to make ready-made frames for them. I guess that if the jersey doesn’t cost or mean that much you can try and stick it in a read-made poster frame, but if it means a lot or it cost heaps, thane it’d be best to get it professionally custom picture framed. But, shop around, the cost for custom framing a jersey can be double or triple, depending on whether you go to a working class suburb framer like Springvale or a professional one like Brighton.