Picture Framing
The Original Art Shop in Preston, has a modern picture framing workshop on the premises that enables us to frame our customers artwork quickly and professionally.
Robin was the 7th person in the country to pass the Fine Art Trade Guild's Commended Framers test, and all picture framing is carried out to the FATG's guidelines.
We use high quality acid free mountboard from one of the UK's top suppliers, with most of the mountboard being manufactured in the North West of England in Cumbria.
Although we focus on picture framing, we are delighted to quote for framing any item, no matter how small or large and whether for home use or for commercial and contract purposes.
When purchasing framed art from our website, if the framed item needs glazing we use Artscreen Plus in place of glass. This acrylic product is safer than glass for carriage and also has UV blocking qualities that helps prevent the artwork from being damaged by the effects of UV light.
Here are a few of the items we have framed to give you an idea of the breadth of skills our craftmen have.
Open edition prints, poster and any other picture framing.
Limited Edition Print Framing - Frames made for giclee, silkscreen, lithograph, photographs,etchings,engravings - even prints produced by elephants on elephant dung paper!
Original Artwork Framing - Oil paintings on canvas or board, watercolour paintings, pencil and charcoal sketches, chalk drawings, pastel paintings, mixed media work on virtually any substrate, batiks, stencil cut out paper, leatherwork and souvenier pieces from all over the world made from papyrus, banana leaf and kangeroo skin.
Needlework Framing. We stretch and frame all types of needlework, tapestries, embroideries etc on any type of backing cloth - some are more challenging than others, but all can be framed.
Medal Framing and Memorabilia Framing. During our time in Preston we have framed all types of memorabilia whether a set of military medals, pieces of concrete from the Berlin Wall, pieces of artificial turf from Preston North End's old plastic pitch, dried flowers, swords, ceremonial daggers from Saudi Arabia, sporting shorts, shirts and equipment, christening robes and old dolls. In fact if you have something unusual that you would like to display just bring it in - we love a challenge!
Picture Framing and indeed, framing any item is a challenging and creative process and we will be delighted to offer our advice with mounting and frame selection to ensure that you framed items will look as good in 10 years as the do on the day you collect them.
