The Framers Forum

Hello I recently joined the forum, I am not a framer but find myself becoming engrossed by the subject. My interest has been born out of the increasing number of framers I find myself dealing with on eBay, where I sell various gilding kits, also my website is wholly about gilding and distressed fini...

I know this is only obliquely to do with picture framing but as I was/am a bookbinder, and as I know their is at least one more bookbinder treads the boards of this forum I thought I would include this huge error of judgement. It was high summer in deepest Somerset (south of england) it was extremel...

Thank you for noticing me John. My name is Richard Norman, for 25 years my wife and I were professional bookbinders, we ran a system of craft workshops at Downside Abbey in England. 3 years ago we took early retirement and moved out here to the south of France. We used large amounts of dutch metal l...