"I am delighted to have been recommended to the all-round services of The Frame House, Consett.
Whether a customer requires help and advice on the right frame for a picture, or on photo restoration, or lettering, or the production of beautiful and complicated prints, nothing is too much trouble, and it would appear that nothing is impossible.
(Thank you for your confidence, Gina, but there are some things we can’t reproduce to our normal standard – things like scanning huge, shiny surfaces can give us nightmares! Wendy)
Knowledgeable advice, based on years of experience is given by a friendly and helpful staff, and the end results are first class.
As for the Giclee printing, Eileen creates amazing work. She is a perfectionist, a printer par excellence.
I am very grateful to her"
Click here to read some more of the brilliant feedback we regularly get from our clients
Scanning originals - a potential double disaster
When we scan images they have to be absolutely flat to the glass so light reflects back in the same way all over the image. Works larger than the scanner have to be scanned in areas which mean they are moved over the glass several times.
We take great care of the originals left for scanning and print-proofing but realistically they have to be able to withstand handling and storage in our folders.
Recently we scanned in several oils for a novice artist, and the last one left smears on the glass of our (expensive) scanner and consequently all over the irreplaceable original painting. A potential double disaster! Fortunately one of our specialist staff was able to remove the unwanted paint, but we have added a ‘term of condition’ to our order forms to try to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Oil, Acrylic and similar media
Please allow adequate time for your media to dry thoroughly before bringing it for framing or printing.
Please don't varnish your work.
Shiny surfaces such as varnish and some additives used with paints, reflect the light from the scanner resulting in poor quality scans and extra proofing time, which in turn costs you more.
If your oil painting is already mounted, the stretcher bars may affect the scans; the Frame House Team will rectify this as they scan, but the painting must be thoroughly dry
for more informationlook at our
'What do I need to know before ordering?' blog page.
Click here to read some more about this in our blog page
TIP: If you are sending your own digital photographs of images, can you make sure that they are at about 400 DPI for Fine Art Printing, we can print at less, but the higher pixel count lets us proof to a higher standard.
We still need the originals to proof the colours as very few photos match the paintings - we prefer to use our in house photographer
What do we do at Frame House?
Bespoke Picture Framing & Fine Art Giclée Printing.
We can meet your needs from providing a photographer through to printing, mounting and framing your own images. We can also scan and restore your damaged photos.This delightful family group, belonging to Mrs S Stewart was torn and scratched. Although the edges of the tear were distorted and had lost some surface this repair was not too difficult, but the faces needed rebuilding. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version.
Click here to see the original images.
We can show you how to:
Take photographs with your camera, edit them in Photoshop and use Microsoft Office software.
At the moment we are running bespoke courses for individual learners, in fact, to keep the courses as flexible as possible, the most we will take at any time is three learnersRecently we created a bespoke course for Yvonne Jessop who wrote in our comments book -
'Fantastic course – learned so much. Would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.'
Click here to find out more about Frame HouseClick here to find out more about Frame House Preparation and Mounting
We have experience of framing the following ‘Unusual’ jobs
Making special frames for photographs or images which also included 3D objects
Rosettes, horse shoes, plaited horse hair and other 3D ‘pet’ items
A closed box frame for a photo and a container for a beloved pet’s ashes
Baby shoes, christening items, clothing
Football shirts and shoes
Medals and memorabilia
We make hinged box frames which allow easy access to protect and display items like medals or fishing flies.
We are open to new ideas and continue to research materials and techniques.
We have had some interesting framing jobs recently. The fire screen
was a deep one as the Iris petals stood well away from the background – just like real flowers. The stained glass
was done in panels. Not difficult, but heavy and fragile. We also framed a big fan-shaped branch of coral, definitely different..
Updates
Georgina Jack, author of ‘Calendar Pigs’
Georgina at The Frame House
We have been commissioned by the author Georgina Jack to proof and print the delightful pictures from her book ‘Calendar Pigs’, release date 25 May 2011.
A limited run of signed Artist's Prints and books are available from The Frame House
Georgina has already had well attended book signings, and we are sure the book will become very popular as it awakens many memories of childhood and the life in war-time Northumbrian countryside.
‘Calendar Pigs' is available from The Frame House, Amazon ,Tesco, W.H.Smith, Book Depository and even Emporium Books in Australia.
A description of the book, thumbnails of the images and links to retail outlets are on our blog page under ‘Featured Artist’
Talking about 'Contented Customers', I've put a random scanned page from our Visitors' Book in the Blog section so you can see the originals as well as the transcript. I aplologise if I got any names wrong, Doctors and Artists sometimes seem to have similar flamboyant signature styles.
I look forward to seeing your comments, and reading your information and help on blog pages!
Wendy
