Your Picture Framer WorcesterThis is a close up photo of a London Marathon set we completed for one of our energetic customers. As you can see the double mount has been cut to follow the shape of both the medal and ribbon.
This is the whole frame showing finishing photo and certificate along with the medal.
Here is a set of WW2 medals along with 3 photos of the old soldier sadly no longer with us. The family will now be able to treasure these reminders of their loved one for many a year.
Whilst we got on with the design and build of the frame we ordered some replacement ribbons to refresh the medals. The double mount has been cut on our Wizard computerised mountcutter and we have taken advantage of its capabilities to put rounded cut outs for the medals and vee grooves around both the medals and photographs. Spacers have been placed between the glass and the mount to ensure the medals are not pressing against the glass. All in all a great treasure for around £100.
Whilst we sort out taking a video of our Wizard computerised mountcutter in action here are a few examples of what the machine is capable of.
Here a little boy’s name has been cut out in 3inch high letters, some informal photos inserted behind the mount and then the whole package has been put into a simple black frame.
The Wizard has an extensive clipart library and we have cut just half a dozen to show you:
To give you some idea of scale these very simple cut-outs have been placed in 6 inch square frames but they can be cut to almost any size.
The next example shows a slightly more complicated cut:
By using different boards other colours can be included, again, this is in a 6 inch frame.
Thanks for reading this, we hope it has whetted your appetite for framing. We will endeavour to add some more of our Wizard CMC’s capabilites in the future.
We hope the following few pictures and words explain how we manage to fit a shirt into a frame.
Here is a Worcester Warriors rugby shirt folded, shaped and sewn onto a board (this means it can be removed in the future and still be “as new”).
Using our computerised mountcutter we designed a double mount to follow the shape of the folded shirt using the yellow and dark blue taken from the colours of the shirt. Next up was to make a frame with a deep side so that the frame will eventually hang flush with the wall without an ugly box sticking out the back.
The overall finished package gives the impression the shirt is floating in the middle of the frame. This technique can be used for almost any type of shirt, an alternative is to overlap the shirt with the mount (see our Iron Maiden concert t-shirt in an earlier blog). Virtually any shape mount can be achieved thanks to our superb Wizard computerised mountcutter – we may get round to taking a short video of the machine in action one day and put it on the blog!
Following the wedding of their son the customers wanted a small keepsake of the day and decided they would like to frame their invitations. The invitation was actually in five parts; an outer envelope and a number of separate smaller individual cards. After agreeing a layout and colour scheme to compliment those of the invitation we set to work.
The scroll work, cut as grooves, was added to follow the design on the envelope, this is just a small sample of the capabilities of our computerised mountcutter. All the items have been float mounted to add a feeling of depth to the whole package. All of this was achieved for around £80.
We were given a pair of Dickie Johnsons riding breeches from 2009 when he completed his 2000th win in December that year to frame for St Richard’s Hospice. The framed breeches were handed back to St Richard’s Hospice in time for their charity auction during Ladies Day at Worcester Racecourse on saturday 4 June 2011. The breeches have been signed by Dickie, Tony McCoy, Ruby Walsh, Barry Geraghty and others.
The breeches have been placed in a shallow box frame with a suitably shaped mount . The frame has been hand finished with a light blue wash and then waxed and polished. We have yet to be informed how much they raised for charity during the auction but will let you know.
Have been informed that the framed breeches raised £420 for charity!
This collection was framed for the customer’s wife’s birthday, they both attended an Iron Maiden concert in Prague a few years ago and wanted a permanent reminder of the event. The brief was to show the concert tour dates listed on the back of the shirt, a photograph of the shirt front and, if possible, the tickets and wristbands.
The shirt was folded around a neutral board and sown in place, the photograph was dry mounted on another board and the wristbands and ticket are held in place with archival polyester strips (ensuring no glue or sticky tapes touch them). It is all then double mounted in black and red to complement the colours in the shirt. A collection framed like this retails for around £80.
We were asked to frame this Jackson Pollock print without a mount. To prevent the artwork touching the glass we used tiny spacers to provide an airgap.
The overall width of the completed frame was a touch more than 150 cm.
Not long ago we were asked to reframe a watercolour that dated back to 1923. As you can see from the 2 photographs below both the frame and mount have seen better days.
The next photo shows a close up of the bottom corner of the back of the frame, here you can see the effects of moisture and the original adhesive used when putting the frame together.
After removing it all from the old frame we found the watercolour had been bonded to another board, possibly in an atttempt to keep it flat, and an excessive amount of brown tape used to attach it to the mountboard.
The 12 cm x 18 cm watercolour was then double mounted in a neutral cream with a maple veneered frame.
These wooden African carvings used to belong to a little girl who used them as toys. Now grown-up, the lady decided to protect them inside a couple of picture frames.
This is the small set, placed in a shallow box to allow for the depth of the items and held in place with archival polyester strips, no damage has been caused to the wood and, if required, can be removed very easily in the future. The customer selected speciality anti-reflective glass to further enhance the finished frame.
This is the second and slightly larger set of carvings. They received exactly the same treatment as the smaller set. A very satisfied customer spent less than £100 to provide protection for her treasured items and allow them to be displayed for all to see.
