At Master Framers, we have the ability to mill our own mouldings and create our own very custom frames to order. While we have over 300 different profile knives (shapes) to choose from, we often design new knives to use, based on drawings our customers bring to us, or from historical frames we have seen. This variety is what allows us to create special frames for your art. Our custom frames are built and finished one at a time, measured to fit precisely and to allow the proper depth for canvases or other special depth requirements. In addition, our staff can hand carve a frame or use a decorative corner or pattern from the collection of over 2000 composition molds that we own. We can also make our own molds by casting patterns from antique frames or by hand carving a design that we want to duplicate.
Our finish possibilities cover a wide spectrum as well, from natural woods, stains, paints, metal leaf and karat golds in white, yellow and hues in between. Each frame is toned to work with your artwork. Attention to detail is as important to us as it is to you.
Brian Stewart
Brian Stewart
Merry DeCourcy
Steve Levin
Sarah Wieben
Sarah Wieben
We worked with painter Brian Stewart to capture the feeling of the sheet metal used on vintage travel trailers for this frame for his painting. We used 12k gold and actual rivets placed into pre-drilled holes to simulate the look.
Here is a detail view of the corner of the rivet frame. We also scratched lines into the gesso to simulate the sheet metal.
This frame was designed by our staff working with local painter Merry DeCourcy. Using architectural details from the building where the painting would hang we created a twist on the block corner style frame by layering smaller and smaller blocks on each corner.
Steven Levin came to us with a design in mind based on Dutch profiles and the frame he had actually painted into his painting. This was used as the cover art for the paperback edition of \"The Girl in Hyacinth Blue\" written by Susan Vreeland.
Local landscape painter Sarah Wieben worked with the designers at Master Framers to develop this frame for her work. The paintings float within the 4\" wide moulding.
Another grouping of paintings by Sarah Wieben in the frame she designed for her work. Check out more of her work on her website: http://www.sarahwieben.com