A Quality Framing Service

We have always offered a quality, reliable framing service to professional artists and galleries. An aspect of this work is that where we cannot supply particular styles/colours from stock we will always try to source the exact type of framing materials required.

The bulk of our bespoke framing work comes from customers within East Devon, but there are many people coming to the town from further afield, to enjoy shopping in the varied, interesting shops that the town has to offer, together with a walk on the seafront, or up the river, a cream tea and .... getting their pictures framed!

In order to keep the repeat business and recommendations we have always tried to tackle all jobs that come our way. We have a great deal of experience of framing needlecraft - including embroideries and tapestries, in both conventional and deep 'box' frames where necessary. Military medals, football shirts, decoupage pictures and collages all go towards keeping us on our metal!

Our Framing Service and Choice of
Framing and Mounting Cards

A two week turn around on bespoke work is normally offered, but because all the framing is carried out on the premises we can generally meet customers deadlines when work is urgently required .

We generally stock well over a hundred different mouldings:-

• Plain woods - pine, ash, oak, ramin, tulip wood, lime, obeche
• Wood veneers
• Stained woods
• Contemporary black / white block
• Aluminium sections ( obtained to order)
• Gold / silver, painted, distressed or leaf finish
• Plastic composition mainly wood effect, black, gold or silver

Hand Finishing:
The plain woods can be left plain or waxed with traditional beeswax to give a polished finish which offers a certain amount of protection against dirt etc.. Most types of wood are suitable for liming, in the traditional manner of applying a liming cream with steel wool, then
wax polishing to remove the surplus liming leaving the characteristic
blue/grey lime in the grain of the wood.

Needlecraft
We have a great deal of experience in framing needlecraft - find out more here.

Pricing Range
There is a selection of mouldings in all price bands. The plastic composition mouldings are comparatively, size for size, cheaper than wood mouldings, so we are able to produce larger 'poster' type frames at a more reasonable cost than their wooden equivalents.

Conservation Framing
We are able to offer a good range of acid free conservation mounting boards, barrier paper and backing board. Although we do not at present stock U.V. control glass, we can get this to order where the ultimate protection is needed for precious artwork.

Box Frames
There are many more deep rebate frames available now, so it is quite an easy matter to
make box frames - although there is often quite an increase in the labour cost to frame 3D artwork, because of the challenges that can arise.

These are just some of the items we have framed in 'box' type frames.

• Cricket Bat
• Straw Hat
• Sugar sculpture - from a wedding cake.
• Medals
• Indonesian Shadow Puppet
• Dried flowers
• Football and Rugby shirts
• Decoupage artwork

Mounting Boards
We generally keep about 40 different colours in standard and conservation quality. These are chosen from several different ranges and most are 1400microns thick. All are white core although we do occasionally use standard core boards on the ready made fames.

Most modern mountboards are termed ph neutral but we do keep designated conservation boards.