Custom framing should be exactly that, customized to meet your needs while enhancing your artwork. We Frame portraits, photographs, paintings, prints, posters, keepsakes, art of all kinds. Come in for a free consultation on showing your artwork to its best advantage.

There are many things to consider when designing a custom frame. But a frame package is much more than what meets the eye. Custom framing includes many choices in moulding, mats, glass types, and extras such as fillets, French lines, and v-grooves. Your professional framer's suggestions, along with your own input, are important elements in developing a frame package that will best enhance and protect your art work.

Preservation framing, also know as conservation or museum quality, uses materials and techniques that help protect against the effects of sunlight and pollutants that yellow, fade and damage the art. Archival matting, hinging and UV protective glazing (glass or acrylic) are most commonly used to increase the longevity of framed items. Make your investment last by using the right materials.

Matting

We also offer custom matting. We can cut single, double, or triple mats, oval, irregular or rectangular and multiple opening cuts are available. Our Eclipse Computerized Mat cutter can cut to any shape or style to go with the design of the artwork or piece that is being framed.

Certainly one of the reasons we use matboards to encase art is to bring out the colors in an image while drawing in the eye. There are many creative and elegant techniques that can be used which add distinction to your framed piece. The addition of matting can mean the difference between an insignificant piece that gets lost on a wall and a dramatic one that serves as a perfect accent for a room.

Dry Mounting & Laminating

Mounting is a process by which artwork is attached to a board. Dry mounting, wet mounting and spray mounting are ways to prevent the artwork from bubbling or waving in the frame. Artwork of any value is not generally mounted since it can greatly affect any resale value.
Museum mounting, commonly known as hinging, is when the art is attached with paper hinges to the board. The art hangs free, allowing it to expand or contract with humidity. Dry and wet mounting are permanent processes and not recommended for archival materials.

Whether you're mounting for framing, mounting and laminating for display or texturing artwork for an added creative touch, our VacuSeal® vacuum press can laminate your posters, prints, photos or artwork up to 36"x48".

Shrink wrapping is also available.

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30 North Chelan Ave. • Wenatchee, WA 98801-2220
Phone: 509.662.7117 • Fax: 509.663.8530 • email: info@mcdeesart.com

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