Luv2Roam
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I think it was Heather who linked to some wonderful pin framing she created.
On one, the background was fabric, with an onion translucent paper (?) covering the fabric to tone it down.
Was that paper? What kind, and what department did you find it?
I saw tracing paper at Michael's and almost bought that, thinking that may be what it was.
During our move, the movers broke the glass out of a framed piece of artwork. They paid for the replacement expense.
I had the artwork reframed/matted by Michael's. (And I think Heather could have done a better job.
)
I also had the old frame and matting returned to me. Now I have a great mat and wood frame to experiment with.
It is fairly large, but not huge.
Now -- another question for framers....
When we picked up the new framed artwork from Michael's, they did not string hanging wire on the back. Instead there are these two large metal D loops, that are placed one on each side, almost half way down.
We were told this makes the picture more stable for hanging. This is not a huge, heavy picture. I wouldn't want to carry it around all day but it is not like it is HEAVY.
I have never seen this and we weren't too happy about that. It will make hanging this picture almost impossible to be perfectly straight. We have enough hard time just getting a regular picture like I want it on a wall.
We bought our own wire to hang the picture.
Has anyone seen this method for hanging pictures?
I can see if the framed artwork was horizontally long, heavy (like LOTS of pins under glass) or over sized. But not for what we have.
We have other artwork the same size, framed by Michael's and other professionals.
Sadly, there were other issues on this frame job and we won't use Michael's again. Nothing major. But for what we paid and it taking two weeks, it should have been perfect and we returned for touch ups -- including splintered framing.
Heather -- we needed you!
A plus side -- Michael's had shadow boxes 40% off.
I bought a few.
On one, the background was fabric, with an onion translucent paper (?) covering the fabric to tone it down.
Was that paper? What kind, and what department did you find it?
I saw tracing paper at Michael's and almost bought that, thinking that may be what it was.
During our move, the movers broke the glass out of a framed piece of artwork. They paid for the replacement expense.
I had the artwork reframed/matted by Michael's. (And I think Heather could have done a better job.
)I also had the old frame and matting returned to me. Now I have a great mat and wood frame to experiment with.
It is fairly large, but not huge.
Now -- another question for framers....
When we picked up the new framed artwork from Michael's, they did not string hanging wire on the back. Instead there are these two large metal D loops, that are placed one on each side, almost half way down.
We were told this makes the picture more stable for hanging. This is not a huge, heavy picture. I wouldn't want to carry it around all day
but it is not like it is HEAVY.I have never seen this and we weren't too happy about that. It will make hanging this picture almost impossible to be perfectly straight. We have enough hard time just getting a regular picture like I want it on a wall.
We bought our own wire to hang the picture.
Has anyone seen this method for hanging pictures?
I can see if the framed artwork was horizontally long, heavy (like LOTS of pins
under glass) or over sized. But not for what we have. We have other artwork the same size, framed by Michael's and other professionals.Sadly, there were other issues on this frame job and we won't use Michael's again. Nothing major. But for what we paid and it taking two weeks, it should have been perfect and we returned for touch ups -- including splintered framing.
Heather -- we needed you! A plus side -- Michael's had shadow boxes 40% off.
I bought a few. 
