The Framers Forum

It may depend on the heat that the particular brand of tissue you use requires, but I would comfortably say no. My hotpress runs at 92o for mounting, so it' is going to melt anything oil/wax based! @atomgallery If the process and implications are explained fully to the customer and they make an info...

I agree, I've been working on this premise for a while now. It's purely down to cost of goods incl delivery. Some suppliers have added a separate chop delivery cost recently, whereas I used to be able to add a chop to a length order and only pay one delivery charge. Yesterday a 2.8m chop incl delive...

always enjoy your feed! Website update is great.

Just DO NOT vacuum press those bespoke OS Maps, they're disublimated(?) rather than inkjet and so any heat blurs the image. They can be mounted with a cold roller press though. I use a local signage/display company to mount work like this or if it's too big for my hotpress. If you do ever need to mo...

My advice would be get your business Facebook and Instagram pages setup soon. Then register your business with Google and place it on Google Maps. It can take 3 months for fb insta and your website to get listed properly on Google searches so the sooner the better. Get a website home page up asap, w...

Yes of course, it was the idea of hangers on 8mm that I was referring to.

Are you open again Mark?

No I'd not be happy hanging a 50x70 piece from the backboard.

What they all said! And yes the black mountboard is an excellent trick, I've used it a few times at an angle, I'll have to give the pinhole idea a go now. Feedback is essential in my view. If you do Insta, you get followed by loads of other framers as well. It's really encouraging when you get some ...

HI Jerome, can you recommend suitable hangers for an 8mm frame? I struggle to find any hangers for the vertical that don't show at the sides.

I only use the size of frame for small pieces with a sawtooth hanger at the top. It is really the weight of the glass that is the issue. I have had a number of skinny framed pieces in for reframing over the years. The issue being that as the bottom rail sags, it exposes the bottom of the glass and p...

Hey Mark, just to keep you up with the industry. New mountboard standards are being introduced by the manufacturers through much consulting with the Fine Art Trade Guild over the last few years. The old standards were Cotton Museum, Conservation, White Core, Standard/Cream Core. The new levels are k...

Hi Mark,
Welcome to the forum.
I follow your gallery on insta and receive your emailouts. How's business in prints this year?
Don't be put off by how quite it is here at the moment, just dodge the tumbleweed! Plenty of people here to answer questions when the spirit moves them.

We don't have an equivalent dedicated to framing??? Art and Framing Today magazine published by the Fine Art Trade Guild or Larson Juhl Four Walls magazine?? I can't imagine that our industry here in the UK is large enough for a monthly magazine to even get off the ground. I'm sure that for someone ...

Pmed you.

That's the point John. It's an incredibly cheap subscription, as you know. It's well worth signing up for it, if anyone is at all interested in what experts in the industry have to say.
I know I have shared pages of some books at times, breaking copyright, but honestly my drawing is so bad...

Great article in the September issue of Picture Framing Magazine written by Jared Davis MCPF GCF. Well worth a read if you're interested in Customer Service and the customer's experience at the design table.

Here's my offering. Customer's own work for judging/marking by the Royal School of something or other, so sewn onto board by her (I'm not responsible for the wonkiness..)
Double rag mount, lovely LJ Sofia moulding, echoing the leaves in the piece, CC99 glass.

It's that time again!!!
Anyone got anything to shock/inspire/praise the lord about this week?

I'm shuddering thinking about cuts from removing rusty triangle points...