This text provides a comprehensive guide to framing for paintings, prints, photographs, tapestries and models. It reveals the secrets of successful framing from a professional picture-framer: how to choose the right mouldings and mounts; how to use the framer's tools; mitring and staining mouldings; cutting rectangular and oval apertures in mount boards; how to make a double-sided frame; and how to create unusual-shaped frames. It explains the best way to frame paintings, photographs, prints, samplers, greetings cards, medals, three-dimensional decoupage, craft work and even a model boat. The stages are shown in step-by-step colour photographs and text, and range from simple projects to more advanced frames. This guide should appeal to artists, photographers, craftspeople, collectors and DIY enthusiasts of all ages.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Tunbridge Wells
Großbritannien
Illustrationen
100 colour illustrations, index
Maße
Höhe: 260 mm
Breite: 204 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-85532-805-4 (9780855328054)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Part 1 Materials and equipment: materials for making frames; equipment for making frames; materials for making mounts; equipment for making mounts. Part 3 Basic techniques: making a simple frame; sizing mounts; using a straight hand mount-cutter; using an adjustable mount-cutter; using an oval mount-cutter. Part 3 Combining techniques: ways with photographs - framing a school portrait, black and white photograph, informal family snapshot, old sepia photograph; multiple mounts - pastel in a double mount, quilling in a multiple mount; multiple-aperture mounts - symmetrical set of silk flags, set of greetings cards; canvas work and fabrics - canvas-work landscape, Auntie Maud's samplers; holding the glass away from the work - three-dimensional paper sculpture, set of medals; box frames - box frame for a model boat; double-sided frames - mounting a document; fancy cutting - set of pressed flowers.
