Framing a Persian Rug

 

We've framed up this amazing Persian Rug this week, a real joy to work on, the detail is incredible and it's so finely stitched...and heavy :-)

We attached the rug to a canvas backing and were then able to stretch that over a frame allowing us to float the piece within the yellow tray. That was in turn framed in an aquamarine frame. You can't really see in the photo, but we chose the yellow and aquamarine to echo some of the background colours in the rug. The finished result looks really beautiful :-)

 

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Joanne Parsons

 

These are the last of the pieces of artwork being frames for Artweeks (other than the ones I need to do for myself...). Some wonderful pastels by Joanne Parsons. We've coordinated the tray colours with the artwork and used a couple of different frames to finishes them off, really lovely pieces of artwork, Joanne is site 404, get along to see her if you can :-)

 

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Woodwork

 

Working on a couple of frames with trays and some tray samples today...

 

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Gold frame

 

A lovely bird painting here, we've set the canvas in a pale tray and then framed everything in a beautiful gold frame....wouldn't mind this hanging on my wall :-)

 

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Colourful undercoat...

 

Here are a few frames in various stages of the painting process, the white one is an inner tray for a canvas, it's just getting a couple of coats of primer. The green one is a gessoed frame that's just had its first coat of paint, several more to follow. And the bright red one (Atomic Red by Little Greene, for those of you wondering) is actually going to be finished in black, but I want to rub the final frame back to reveal some of this warmth underneath...:-)

 

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Handmade frame all finished

 

LOTS of framing going on in the studio at the moment, but much of it is for Christmas presents, so I'm not posting too much in here:-)

 

Here's one thing we can post though, the finished handmade frame we put together recently. A gessoed outer frame with a painted inner tray, and a coloured spacer. :-)

 

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