All the materials and tools you need for creating beautiful finishes on mounts and frames, as well as techniques such as object box framing, gilding and conservation framing.
Use stains, waxes and paints to create individual finishes on bare wood mouldings.
Everest Paints, Polyvine, Liberon Black Bison Wax, Flag Classic Wax, Cracked Paint Effects, Liberon Waxes and Polishes
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Use inks, powders and paints to add style and value to your mounts.
Everest Inks & Powders, Tombow Pens, Pearlescent Inks, Brass & Pasta Decorations, Russian Watercolours, Pens, Bevel Wrapping, Decorative Transfers, Mastermount Decorative Tapes, Lion Metallic Ink
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Add brush stroke effects and lighter textures to photographs and prints with texturing gels.
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Polishes and varnishes for finishing wood frames, oil and acrylic paintings, as well as Acrylic Primer.
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Tools and materials for this skilled technique, including products from Liberon, Kolner and Nazionale.
Gilding requires knowledge, practice and experience. We recommend the standard reference work 'Practical Gilding', essential reading material for any would-be gilder . We can also provide details of gilding trainers email info@lionpic.co.uk .
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Needlepoints and tapestries have long been regular jobs for most framers. More recently, the framing of fabric items such as sports shirts and baby clothes in object box frames has become another very profitable aspect of many framing businesses.
We offer a number of innovative products that make these jobs easier, including:
Fabrigrip for the fast squaring and stretching of most items on cloth without staples or adhesives
MicroStitch T-Tag Guns for quickly and easily fixing fabric and small items to mountboard or foamboard
Please also see the Object box framing section for products to help you frame 3D items and our Sports Shirt Framing System for quick and easy mounting of a sports shirt or other garment.
T-Tags & Guns
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The unique Lion Sports Shirt Framing System and mounts for bats and balls help you make the most of this profitable framing sector.
Sports Shirt Framing System
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Many framers tell us that more and more of the items they take in for framing are 3D - all sorts of memorabilia and souvenirs now find their way into a frame. Browse our range of spacers, mounting clips and other devices to help you frame 3D objects.
EconoSpace Self-adhesive Spacer, FrameSpace Clip-on Spacer, RabbetSpace Rebate Extender
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Products for archival mounting and framing. For gummed hinging and sealing tapes, please see the Tapes and adhesives category.
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Products for restoration and oil painting conservation, including the Gainsborough range.
LION cannot accept any liability for problems arising from mis-use of these specialised materials.
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Tools and applicators for achieving many different specialist techniques.
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