Acrylic or Glass?
Many of the galleries seem to be moving away from the ubiquitous plate glass protection for their pictures, to the relatively newer Acrylic or Plexiglas. It is quite clear to see the benefits for the gallery, as acrylic is shatterproof, much lighter compared to glass and tends to …
Multi Aperture Framing
Multi aperture framing is a way of grouping together sets of pictures to give more of an overall story of the event, style, view, collection or just about anything that you wish to show off. This can be most dramatic when displaying a collection of eclectic shapes- maybe …
Choosing the Right Frame for the Room
Choosing the right frame for your art work is not as easy as you might think! The frame can play an integral role in the overall impact that the picture has in the room, and deciding on whether or not that a wood finish frame, or a guilt edged moulding woul…
Montage
One of the ways to really make an impact with your art work is to make a montage of them. This just really means displaying a collection, whether it is photos, or art work in a carefully designed arrangement. This can have a most dramatic effect on the space where you wish to hang them. …
Memory Heart Pictures
The idea of first personalising your own picture came when looking around our local arts, and crafts fair in Boune Hall, in Ewell, Surrey. While looking at the plethora of different designs and hand crafted art work that people had so skilfully created, I couldn’t hel…
Float Glass
Clear picture framing float glass is most common and least expensive for general purposes. Often called standard glass, and not be confused with lower-quality window glass.
Diffused Glass
Diffused glass or, or non glare is about twice the price of clear glass. Its etched surface bl…
Choosing Your Mounts
When it comes to making the choice of which frame to pick to enhance your piece art work; there are a whole plethora of colours, finishes, styles in an equally mind boggling amount of size’s that would do the job and that’s before you even get to the mounts!
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Mounting is incredibly versatile, in its simplest form it is just a sheet of card with a hole in the middle but there are so many variations to this, adding extra mounts with larger apertures to make double or triple mounts, adding drawn, embossed or cut lines, fitting spacers between the layers to …
When we began stocking the full range of Arqadia mountboards it was exciting to see such a massive colour choice. With no difference in cost between whitecore and conservation boards it means that offering better protection for artwork in general.