Creative Picture Framing

Picture frames can be attractive and decorative features in the home, and learning to make them is a satisfying and rewarding craft. This book shows you all you need to know to make and embellish the perfect frame that will suit your home and choice of picture.

This visually appealing book introduces readers with no previous knowledge of the craft to simple techniques for creative home picture-framing. It shows how investing in a few essential hand tools and basic materials can save you hundreds of pounds on your framing costs, and help you create high-quality handmade gifts for family and friends. Step-by-step photos and easy-to-follow instructions - as well as useful ‘insider tips’ - reveal the secrets of DIY framing. Ten original projects include simple techniques to frame canvases and stretch canvas artworks, make standard frames and box frames using readily available timber, and even craft a 60-minute mirror frame from a plank of wood. You’ll learn techniques for cutting mount-board and glass, and discover the secrets of easy gilding, decoupage and copper embossing to decorate your frames. The Woodland Pie framing style is all about accessible creativity; making easy and appealing frames from basic materials and always using hand-painted or hand-made finishes. Find out how to create a lustrous, versatile, go-to paint effect for your picture frames using nothing other than household emulsion paint, water, and wire wool! This brilliant how-to book cuts out the unnecessary and promises to get you hobby framing in no time – with creative flair.

Making Frames is an essential and practical guide to the process of framing artwork of all types. It explains how to measure the artwork, cut a window mount, attach the image, cut the moulding and make the frame before preparing the backing board and glass for assembly. Having explained the basic process, it then describes more advanced techniques such as using different mounts and framing other three-diamensional items. It is illustrated with over 300 photographs and gives clear detailed instructions along with tips and advice throughout to give your frame a professional finish. Contents include: instructions to frame paper-based artwork such as photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; advice on equipment and materials to buy, as well as tips on how to store them; guidance on conservation methods to preserve valuable artwork; specialist methods for framing canvas, panels and other types of supports that are thicker than paper; methods for advanced mounts, framing fabric art and different types of deep-box framesIdeas for creative framing and unique effects, including hand decorated mounts, gilding and paint effects on bare wood moulding. This essential and practical guide to framing artwork of all types will be of interest to artists, crafters, needle workers, interior designers as well as beginners and experienced framers. Superbly illustrated with 353 colour photographs.

Over twenty-five ways to decorate purchased frames, eight methods for making original frames, and techniques for hanging frames.

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Sixteen creative yet simple step-by-step projects lot making your own frames and decorating ready-made frames.