β¦. and I didnβt even cry (that much).
Sometime last summer, a client from Edinburgh brought me a beautiful ornate frame to restore. It had unfortunately been dropped and lost a significant amount of ornamentation from the lower section as well as the ropework around the outside. The drop (and age of the piece) had also resulted in some instability of the ornaments, which also had to be fixed and secured.
Read MoreSo for the last couple of weeks, Iβve been doing something the same, but different. I have been restoring another pretty gigantic frame, but this time not in the comfort of my own workshop- surrounded by those I love and the equipment I am most likely to need at a moments notice.
Instead, I was down in Elie. Alright. Itβs hardly earthshattering- itβs just down the road, but when you need to pack your things for every eventuality; thatβs when you are sure to come up short on one of the eventualities.
Of course that eventuality could be meβ¦
Read MoreMy client, an Edinburgh picture dealer, had a Georgian frame, circa 1805, in need of restoration. While the surface was original, it was very badly chipped in many places through to the gesso and wood. The client wanted as much of the old surface kept as possible and for the frame to have a distressed finish. A particularly attractive feature of the frame was the presence of scalloped shells in the corners - except that three of them were missing! Also, the sides of the frame presented some problems; due to the way the frame had been constructed with two layers of wood sandwiched together; the structure had weakened over time and faultline cracks were appearing through to the gesso all round the sides.
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