Search Press’ practical books contain many examples of pictures to make that you can hang
on your walls. You can take these to a professional framer, of course, but in the true Search
Press spirit of doing it yourself, why not make your own frames?
This is a hobby in its own right, and you might well find yourself deluged with requests
from other "crafty" friends to make frames for their own masterpieces. Perhaps this might not
be a bad idea, as flipping to the section on what you need if you don’t already own tools such
as a mitre saw, underpinner and mount cutter, you will first need to purchase them. Once you
have, you can read all about how to do it, including cutting mountboard and all the technical
woodworking stages, such as setting up your saw, assembling and more.
Of course, this is the bare bones of framing as surely apart from doing a good job, the
aesthetics of the process is just as important. I particularly liked the section showing how
one picture looked when framed by different colors of board and different styles of frame.
Then you need to know about hanging pictures and displaying them to their greatest advantage.
The rest of the book is given over to the advanced stuff; the different styles of frame, oval
and round mounts, coloring frames and a whole lot else.
If you are reasonably confident (and competent) at woodwork and want to try something a bit
different, then this is a good book on how to do it. It covers just about everything I could
think of concerning frames and framing.