Timbers

For frame making we source our timber from the best commercially available timber spices. We work with plenty of varieties and our experts spent a considerable amount of time in local timber yards so as to make the best selection of available planks and assure that all wood is kiln dried and of highest quality.

Pine

Pine wood from South Africa is typically a pale cream colour, soft wood.

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Ash Wood

Ash wood from Canada and the United States is a light coloured, nearly white, strong wood. It is the perfect choice for wood stains, wash effects or opaque grain.

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Oak Wood

White oak wood from Canada and the United States is a strong and beautiful, rot-resistant wood, textured grain with mid to light medium brown. A feature of American Oak is light coloured "rays" interspersed across the grain.

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American Walnut

American Walnut wood from Canada and the United States is a smooth grained timber, with a variety of colouring ranging from deep mocca to pale brown and creams. It is very popular as a feature rich timber.

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Kiat

Kiat from Mozambique is a beautiful wood for its wide variation of color from lighter golden brown to darker reddish or purplish brown. Colour tends to become more subdued with age.

Finishes

To ensure your frame choice reflect the design intent and enhance your work, we offer a wide range of finishing options, from natural hand stained to opaque and smooth lacquer spray finish.

Natural Clear

Our Natural Varnish is applied with a spray gun and process and polish by hand with our expert to ensure an even soft satin sheen. All our timber species are beautifully presented with the natural clear finish it naturally accentuate their natural grain and feature.

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Stains

Staining the wood reveal the timber natural features, ash wood is generally the best choice for a stained frames. All stains are sealed with a smooth satin clear coat.

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Gallery Smooth

Our perfectly smooth satin lacquer finish is best suited for contemporary, urban artwork. The timber is sanded, carefully filled, multiple spray seal and coated to achieve a smooth finish. It is available in black, white and customs colours and is a popular choice for galleries and artist.

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Painted Wood Vein

A painted wood vein is the application of solid tones obscuring the natural wood colour without sealing the veins thus enhancing the natural textural feature of the grain. The Ashwood is generally the best choice for a painted wood vein.

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Custom Colours

Custom Colours can be either opaque grain or gallery smooth technique. You may choose your own colour to match with your artwork or your space. Colours can be specified to any Pantone© reference or alternatively a sample can be matched.

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Weathered

Weathered wood can be layered from one to three different colours. The timber is to be used non planned, carefully hand applied from 1-3 layers of water based painting, then hand sanded to remove the excess and give this weathered effect on the wood. A final seal is then applied with a smooth satin clear coat. Non-planned ashwood is the best choice for this technique due to its natural, open veins.

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Cerused Wood

Rubbed into the open grooves and pores of the wood, the whiting process brings out and highlights the wood grain. Raw Oak is the perfect wood for this technique as it has grooves open enough to fill with wax, painting to hand so as to whiten the grains. This white against caramel wood gives birth to a gorgeous, contrasty finish.

Framing Options

Our framing workshop is fully equipped. In the workshop, hand crafted frames are produced from a range of furniture grade hardwood timbers. We also stock a variety of profiles that can be customized.

Traditional Picture Frame

The Traditional Picture Frame is the best choice for traditional paintings and photos, we have a wide variety of profiles to be customized.

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Floating Tray Frame (Shadow Box)

Suitable for canvas stretching, laminated and drymounted panels, our Floating Tray Frame, also known as Shadow Box, can be customized with a diverse range of colours and timber species.

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Box Frame

The perfect choice if you want to bring extra value to your artwork. Can be also used to frame laminated panels, object as mask, t-shirts and many more. Our experts will advise the best thickness to be used according to the weight of your object or artwork. Very modern and commonly used in galleries.

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Canvas Stretching

We stock imported treated kiln dry stretcher bars in two different thicknesses: 25mm & 38mm.

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Dry Mounting

Dry mounted artwork with an archival double sided film on white finish mounting board or grey finish eska board.

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Alucobond 3mm

Face mounting process whereby a giclee art print is bonded to an aluminium composite. The print is perfectly flat with a matt finish protection film. It comes ready to hang.

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Block Mounting Lamination

Face mounting process whereby a giclee print is bonded to a wooden or PVC block. The print is perfectly flat with a matt finish protection film. The sides are straight or beveled with a smooth high end sprayed duco finish, available in black and white and can also be customized in any colour reference. It comes ready to hang.