The May issue of Picture Framing Magazine includes the first installment of a series I’m writing called “A Joiner’s Art: Frame Making as Woodworking.” You can read it here.
I’m very excited to have the chance to contribute to my industry’s trade magazine. It’s a great opportunity to share many of the insights and understandings I’ve developed about frame making over the past 50 years. (Yep, I started framing pictures as an after-school job in 1975.)
The point of the series is, first of all, to remind my fellow picture framers of the roots of our trade in the medieval and early Renaissance joiner’s shop, then, as the article says, “to demonstrate that, far from being a dead tradition with nothing to offer today’s picture framers, those old roots offer timeless methods that are eternally vital to the art of the frame (as the trees they’re made of are eternally vital to human life and civilization). They are not only the historical background of the art, they are the timeless basis and source of its vitality.” With this series, I hope “to foster appreciation of the joiner’s frame; and…to encourage those framers with the capacity and interest to…incorporate the craft into their frame shops.”
Again, you can read the article here.
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