Picture Framing |
Common terms and phrases
allow altarpiece Amsterdam angle applied architecture artists assembled attached backing board beginner bevel blade border bradawl brush burnished canvas cardboard carved century Rijksmuseum Child with Saints clamp clips coats color corners cramps cutter decoration designed drill Dulwich Picture Gallery Dutch easier etched example fabric finish flat framemakers Georges Seurat gesso gilded glass glaze glue glued Harewood House holes Italian James McNeill Whistler knife lacquer Le Crotoy London Madonna and Child mahogany margin mat board measuring metal mirror frame miter box miter joints miter saws molding mounted nails National Gallery necessary ornament oval painted panel pattern Peter Blake PICTURE FRAMING piece of wood pigment plain pliers Portrait quadrant rebate recess Renaissance Rijksmuseum rubbed sandpaper screw shape shellac sides simple smooth square stain straight edge suitable surface T-square tape tenon saw thin type of frame undercoat usually variety watercolor window wooden