New Motawi Tile Series
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Butterfly Tile
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Alhambra Tile
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The Framer's Workshop again won the Constant Contact All Star Award for excellence and best practices in e-mail newsletters.
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New From Laura WIlder: The Making Of wood block prints: "Winter Woods I & II" | 
"I decided to do something I've never done before: make two separate editions of prints at the same time. This will be a sort of matched pair. ""I spent at least a week on the design phase, figuring out how many colors I need and what the colors will be, designing and redesigning. They seemed to need seven colors, no six, no five, no, FOUR. Simplify, simplify. "Then I carved the blocks, and went to the printing studio. ..."
Read More on Laura's Blog.
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Greetings!
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Motawi Blue Magnolia
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Spring is here and we are happy to announce Motawi Tileworks' 2011 Collection.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Thomas House Tile
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This beautiful new group of tiles includes additions to their popular insect line, along with lovely floral pieces in several color choices.
We also love the new work for the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection derived from the Frank Thomas House in Oak Park, Illinois.
From Motawi Tileworks: "Believing the architect should create total environments, Mr. Wright's designs included art glass windows, furniture and lighting. Our tiles are adapted from a variety of decorative designs that Mr. Wright produced for his clients." We have both framed and unframed tiles in the shop. See our Motawi Tileworks page for more... |
Framing Stories: Maggie & Sara
Some of our favorite framing stories come from our yougest framers. Maggie and Sara Hougan framed a photograph of Maggie's brother, Patrick. Maggie, age 4, pulled out the staples by herself. She cleaned the glass, cut the wire, put on the paper backing and sanded it to fit. Sara is a photographer and framed this photo as an example of her work. You can see more examples of Sara's photography at sarahougan.smugmug.com
See more framing stories here. |
Continuing Education
 What do you do with a painted canvas that has no selvage? How about a painting that has been cut off the original stretcher bars? How do you re-stretch such a canvas? We were lucky to have our friend and well known framing instructor, Rob Markoff CPF, visit us to conduct a staff workshop to answer these questions. His workshop demonstrated the technique of STRIP LINING and shows the proper use of 8XX polyester fabric and safe, removable BEVA adhesive film to add stretching selvage to the edges of canvas. This technique adds enough border to the canvas to stretch it over strainer/stretcher bars. At The Framer's Workshop we take every opportunity to keep current with preservation framing practices for framing and protecting your artwork. Our next educational opportunity will be at the May Larson-Juhl seminar event in Benecia.
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 What Is Dark Fading?
Have you ever wondered why older photographs fade or change color even though they've been stored in the dark? According to the January 2010 "A Consumer Guide to Materials for Preservation Framing and the Display of Photographic Images", damage to photographs can be caused by moisture, temperature, air-borne pollutants and non-conservation framing materials. "Dark fading is the damage that occurs when photos are stored in the dark, as in boxes or photo albums. Dark fading is not caused by the dark; it is the sum of the damage caused by forces that do not need light, and those forces continue whether the lights are on or off."  To learn more about "Dark Fading" and other concerns regarding the preservation of photographs, download the PDF Consumer Guide from the Image Permanence Institute. |
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