17th Century Musket Ball Display
This musket ball, recovered from a 17th century Spanish shipwreck, makes for a highly unique display, and a conversation starter. The chocolate tones evoke maritime hardwood timbers used at the time and the frame details — simulating nautical trinails (wooden pins) used in ship construction…
Shadowbox-Style, Top-Mounted Canvas
Fall holidays are often about feasting, so this silverware painting in fall colors seems timely. The work is top mounted, shadowbox style. Museum glass over the whole piece provides protection from UV rays and air pollutants while minimizing reflections and glare — and of course…
Shadowbox – and a Piece Of History
Shadowbox setting for an olive-drab matted photograph of Lieutenant-General, Lord Robert Baden-Powell. A section of a letter in his own handwriting is top/front mounted below the photo. Powell was a British Army officer, writer, and the founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout…
Heart Frame for Hart Art!
A heart frame for “Eight of Hearts” artwork by Allison Mosshart. Mosshart, lead singer for Dead Weather, artist and fashion designer had her first solo New York art show in 2015. Detail shot, below.
Peña Jersey, Mounted and Framed
Fastframe is Houston’s destination for custom sports memorabilia framing — because we frame it right the first time, every time. In addition to highly experienced framers, our framing materials and glues are acid-free, and our glass is 99% UV resistant. We’re experts at folding and…
Expert Sports Framing
Just a reminder that we are Houston’s sports framing experts. Jerseys and like items are more challenging than framing, say, a simple flat poster. We know how to properly fold and mount jerseys or other memorabilia, and our materials are top-notch, durable, and protect your…
More framing techniques for small artwork
We used a ‘gallery style’ picture frame to make this 7″x7″ piece of abstract art (center of frame) stand large. First, we “float” the actual piece of artwork up about 1/4″ inch uniformly off the surface. We then used a wide, tone-on-tone mat (meaning the…
Antique Violin in Shadowbox
This heirloom violin was framed in hand-crafted, Max Moulding “Focal Point” in Dark Plum. A Crescent Suede mat offers background texture, and the showcase is topped with Conservation Clear Acrylic. Most folks think of “pictures” when it comes to “picture framing, but much of the…
Sports Jersey, Cigar – Thematic Picture Framing
Wrapped for delivery and pictured here, a sports jersey and collage of representative items from Mike Ditka’s Superbowl cigar party framed in Monarch moulding with splash of color in the matting. The use of pictures, items (in this case including an actual cigar!), tickets, and…
Rodeo & Western Picture Framing
Rodeo and western art fans, we’ve got a huge selection of rustic, western-style picture frames and mat materials for you! Pictured example: framed horseshoe using the new crescent select burlap matting with omega moulding Harrison collection burlwood frame. Whether you have western artwork, memorabilia, rodeo…
Shadowboxes Perfect For Mixed Media
Sometimes we’re brought mixed-media, including textures (such as butterflies, in the pictured work of art) or thick objects that result in anything but a “flat” piece of art. Customers are concerned that the work can’t be properly framed, but nothing could be further from the…
Pocket Watch In A Slim Shadowbox
This silver pocket watch was set on a contrasting, black background and encased in a polished wooden picture frame with beautiful knots and knurling. This slim shadowbox illustrates that heirlooms, medals, fabrics, collectibles, and objects of all kinds can be turned into an attractive display…
Floating Shadow Box Frame
What if you want to see the back and front of a framed item? Traditional shadowbox frames have enough depth to contain the subject items and have backing material, which catches the shadow of the framed objects (thus the name). In this technique, (in this…