The Basics of Custom Framing

Guidelines for Great Frame Design By Greg Perkins, CPF Guidelines for Great Frame Design is an impressive new coffee table-style book that will help you select the right frame and matting for any piece of art. Using easy to understand guidelines along with hundreds of examples, it will guide you through the process of picture framing design, helping you turn any piece of art into a striking visual presentation. Featuring hundreds of color photos, this volume provides vivid examples of a wide range of framing options, providing ideas for almost any kind of art. This book is great for art and framing retailers looking for impressive frame designs, homeowners who want to enhance their homes with art, and interior designers looking for new ideas for clients’ homes of offices. Soft Cover, 128 pages $29.95 Item No. B026

Mounting Methods (Volume 5: The Library of Professional Picture Framing) By Vivian Kistler, CPF, GCF From the “The Library of Professional Picture Framing,” this reference guide to mounting includes step-by-step instructions for dry mounting, wet mounting, spray adhesive, pressure-sensitive methods, and selecting the appropriate mounting board. Learn about adhesives: wet paste, pressure-sensitive, dry mount tissues, and film. Read about how to handle buckling, bubbles, and other problems. Set up a mounting worktable and workstation. Types of mounting equipment and accessories, laminating, and canvas transfers. Also, there is a quick reference mounting method chart. Softcover,  96  pages $24 Item No. B043

Picture Framing (Volume 1: The Library of Professional Picture Framing) By Vivian Kistler Complete overview of custom picture framing—from the equipment to the layout of the shop to the work and order processes! Includes: history of framing, cutting and joining wood or metal moulding, order chops or length, cut glass and acrylics, measuring, basic mat cuts, mounting equipment and methods, color, proportion, stretching paintings, conservation, workorders, floorplans. Softcover, 96 pages $24 Item No. B116

Framing Works of Art on Canvas By Paul MacFarland, MCPF, GCF Framing Works of Art on Canvas presents the many facets of framing and working with canvas-based art that picture framers encounter. Whether you are placing art on canvas into a frame for the first time or removing it from previous framing for placement in a new frame, this volume will provide valuable insights into the latest techniques to meet standard preservation practices. You’ll find in-depth looks at topics like working effectively with stretcher bars, fitting canvas and frame, removing canvases from frames, handling and storing canvas art, keying stretcher bars, backing for canvases, whether or not to glaze canvas art. This book is a necessary reference for every art and framing retailer who wants to be up to date on the latest techniques. Soft Cover,  50  pages $24.95 Item No. B404

The Mounting and Laminating Handbook - 3rd Edition By Chris Pashke This newly revised 2008 edition remains the most comprehensive and technical handbook that it set out to be, but now covers even more of what the professional framer needs in a complete manual. Twenty pages worth of information from the 2nd edition have been condensed and edited, then 16 new ones added for a total of 36, making this a spectacular edition. It is still broken into the familiar chapters of wet, spray, pressure sensitive, and dry mounting, but expended cold mounting and laminating chapters now cover starch hinges, kozo backing, encapsulation, sink mounting, face mounting, sponge mounting, linen backing, digital canvases, and inkjet receptor layers. This edition absolutely belongs in every frame shop! Soft Cover, 171 pages $24.95 Item No. B555

The Basics of Picture Framing DVD By Vivian Kistler, CPF, GCF This DVD provides basic training for picture framers and designers. Step-by-step instructions covering: moulding, squaring a mat cutter, cutting single-double mats, color selection, matboards, measuring, cutting glass, framing needlework, stretching paintings, fitting, attaching artwork, dustcovers, screw eyes, and wire. Topics include: attaching artwork; designing framing color, proportion, measuring, writing work orders; cutting & joining frames; cutting glass; cutting mats; fitting; framing oil paintings; framing needlework. DVD,  0  pages $30 Item No. D132

Mounting Methods - DVD By Vivian Kistler, CPF, GCF Learn the basics of full mounting techniques for picture framing. Step-by-step demonstrations fill this entertaining and instructional one hour program with practical information, using a variety of equipment. Topics include: introduction to mounting; wet mounting; dry mounting with mechanical and vacuum presses; pressure-sensitive mounting; and spray mounting. DVD, 0 pages $30 Item No. D698

Designing Custom Framing - DVD By Vivian Kistler, CPF, GCF Learn the guidelines for making choices in frame design. Using many examples, this entertaining and informational one hour program explores all the important elements of designing presentations for artwork. Topics include: basic concepts and terminology of color theory; working the color, see how different color mats change the mood and character of the picture; choosing mat sizes and proportions; selecting mouldings that complete the design; and using fillets, ovals and fabric mats to enhance design. DVD,  0  pages $30 Item No. D701

Picture Framing Magazine Picture Framing Magazine is the only magazine devoted exclusively to custom picture framing. A one-year subscription includes 12 monthly issues, plus an annual directory of sources of supplies and suppliers. Each monthly issue contains articles on business, frame design, mat decoration, mounting, and much more. Subscribe online, just click here.

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