Made to measure, for one particular painting
Nothing in this category comes in fixed sizes. You give the width and height of the artwork and the frame is built to those numbers: the rabbet is cut 2–3 mm larger than the work, so the canvas seats without being forced, and the moulding covers the painted surface by roughly 4–5 mm on each side. On most models you also set the rabbet depth, which decides whether the frame takes a standard 18–20 mm stretcher or a deep 40 mm one. That is the practical difference between a frame made for a painting and a ready-made size the painting has to fit into.
What you will find here
This is the main category of custom picture frames in the shop, so it gathers every model I make, from plain narrow mouldings to wide, ornamented profiles. Broadly it divides into:
- Hand-painted frames — blacks, whites, browns, greens, greys and navies, in matt, satin or high-gloss finishes, including rubbed-back and patinated surfaces with a worn, vintage character.
- Frames gilded with genuine leaf — 23K yellow gold, 22K moon gold, 12K and 6K white gold, and on particular designs sterling silver or palladium.
- Painted frames with a gilded edge — a black, white or coloured face closed at the sight edge by a narrow line of real gold.
- Floating frames for canvas, including the American box, where a visible gap separates the stretcher from the moulding.
- Round frames with a tondo, and profiles of less usual construction, among them Flemish corners and Dutch-style reverse mouldings.
Moulding widths run from narrow strips little more than a centimetre across to profiles well over 100 mm wide, made for large canvases. If you already know the direction you want, it is quicker to go straight to a subcategory: white picture frames, black picture frames, gold gilded picture frames, or frames that combine paint with gilding.
Which artworks these frames suit
Most models are built as settings for oil and acrylic painting on stretched canvas. They are supplied without glass, usually with spring clips or brass plates holding the work in the rabbet, and the deeper profiles will also take built-up or cradled supports. Many of the same mouldings work equally well for prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs; in that case the frame can be completed in the workshop with glass, acid-free matting and a rigid backing board, quoted individually.
How the frames are made
Each frame is built from raw stock in my workshop in Czarna Białostocka. The moulding is profiled, cut and mitred at 45°, and the corners are joined with timber splines before any finish goes on. The frame is assembled first and decorated afterwards, so paint or leaf runs across a closed corner instead of meeting at the joint. Painted models are built up in successive coats, rubbed back or patinated by hand where the design calls for it, and sealed with shellac and wax.
On gilded models the sequence is the traditional one: a chalk gesso ground sanded smooth, a coloured bole over it, and genuine leaf laid by water gilding, which uses no adhesive at all — the leaf bonds to the damp bole. Chosen areas are then burnished with an agate stone to a mirror polish while the rest keeps the matt texture of the leaf. The bole shows through and shifts the tone: red warms the gold, grey cools it, plum sits between the two. Not every frame in this category is gilded, and where the karat and the bole matter they are stated on the individual product page.
What you can choose when ordering
- colour or type of finish, and on gilded models the shade of leaf and the colour of the bole beneath it;
- rabbet depth, matched to the thickness of your stretcher;
- how the work is held — spring clips fitted in the workshop, or brass plates with screws for a permanent mounting;
- hanging orientation, portrait or landscape, with cord as standard and a single D-ring on request;
- a floater version without a rabbet, available on selected models;
- glass, acid-free matting and a backing board as an add-on, priced on enquiry.
On selected models the frame can be painted in any colour from the NCS range. If you are framing several works at once, they can all be finished the same way so the hang reads as one set. Anything beyond the menu — a different moulding, another colour, a format the calculator will not take — is arranged individually.
How to order
Measure the painting itself, not the wall space you expect it to fill, and enter the width and height to 0.1 cm on the product page. Choose the options you want and the price is worked out for you: the base figure is the rate per running metre of moulding, and mitred corners consume more length than the bare perimeter suggests, which the calculator allows for. Lead time is stated on each product.
If you are unsure which profile suits a particular painting, or you need a size the calculator will not accept, write or call with the dimensions and a photograph of the work. I will tell you what I would use and prepare a quote.
Wide white picture frame, made to measure
A wide white picture frame, hand built to the size of one painting. The moulding is 100 mm across the face and 50 mm from the face to the back plane, flat throughout and without ornament, hand painted and polished with wax to a satin sheen. The rabbet is cut 45 mm deep and takes a stretched canvas without any packing. Made for large oils, acrylics on stretcher and large format photography....
Wide Silver Picture Frame Gilded with Palladium Leaf
A wide silver picture frame with a flat face 50 mm across, gilded by hand in palladium leaf. Palladium gives a clean, cool white metal that stays bright rather than darkening the way silver does. At 22 mm thick, with a 15 mm rebate, the frame takes a work on paper behind glass or a canvas on a slim stretcher....
Wide Hand-Painted Picture Frame, Made to Measure, 98 mm
A wide hand-painted picture frame made to measure, with a 98 mm moulding that keeps its presence around a large canvas. I paint and patinate every frame by hand in one of 18 colours, from Champagne White and Marine Navy to Black. The frame is made for stretched canvas; for works on paper I can prepare a glazed version with a backing board....
Wide brown picture frame with gold leaf, made to measure
A wide, made-to-measure brown picture frame with a sight edge gilded in real gold leaf. The deep brown and a fine, warm line of gold create a calm, gallery-style setting for oil and acrylic paintings on canvas — hand-made from solid timber....
Wide brown picture frame for canvas paintings, 150 mm
A wide brown picture frame with a 150 mm moulding (about 6 inches), painted and patinated by hand in my workshop. The brown is one of the darkest I mix: close to black at a distance, but warm underneath rather than grey. I make each frame to the measurements of your canvas painting, and with glazing it also takes prints, watercolours and photographs....
Wide Black Picture Frame with White Gold Trim, 80 mm
A wide black frame for oil paintings on canvas, finished by hand in satin black with a single gilded accent: a band of genuine 6-karat white gold leaf along the inner edge. The moulding is 80 mm wide and 42 mm thick (about 3⅛ by 1⅝ inches), which gives it enough visual weight for a large canvas, and I make every frame to measure....
Wide Black Picture Frame with 23-Karat Gold Trim, 110 mm
A wide black picture frame with gold trim, 110 mm across the face. The body is painted black by hand and the gilded accents are held to a single line: a narrow hollow on the inner frame, water-gilded in 23-karat gold leaf over red bole, running along the edge of the painting. Made to measure for oil paintings and canvases on stretchers....
Wide black picture frame for canvas paintings, 120 mm
A wide black picture frame with a 120 mm moulding, hand painted and patinated with grey pigment in my workshop. The patina keeps the black off a flat factory coat: the surface sits closer to charcoal, and the light reads every step of the section separately. I cut and join each frame to the measurements of your canvas painting....
Wide Black Hand-Painted Picture Frame with Raised Edges
A wide black frame for paintings on canvas, painted by hand with soft brush marks, a light patina and a satin sheen. The moulding is 120 mm wide, about 4¾ inches: a broad flat set between two raised, rounded edges, with the higher one on the outside. I make each frame to measure, for stretched canvases and painting panels up to 20 mm (¾ inch) thick....
Wide black and gold picture frame, 22-karat moon gold leaf
A black picture frame 67 mm wide, about 2⅝ inches, with gold trim where it meets the painting: a shallow hollow lifts into a rounded crest, and that whole form is gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over red bole, burnished with an agate stone. Everything beyond the trim is painted black, so the gold reads as one bright line held against the work rather than a gilded surface. Made to measure, with a rebate of 13 or 20 mm for work on panel or on a stretcher....
White wooden picture frame in high gloss, made to measure
A white wooden picture frame in high gloss, made to measure. A classical 52 mm profile: a narrow bead just beyond the rabbet, a broad half-round hollow rising across the face and a strongly rounded outer edge, in solid timber low in tannin content, finished in ultra white polyurethane at high gloss. The same profile is made in other colours to order. Lead time: 20 to 30 working days....
White picture frame with rounded corners for canvas
A white picture frame for paintings on stretched canvas, made to measure. The moulding is 70 mm wide and 40 mm deep, and the rebate goes back 35 mm, so it takes even a very thick stretcher. The form is plain and geometric, the corners are softly rounded, and I spray the white on in coats until the surface reads as one continuous plane with a satin sheen....
White picture frame for canvas paintings, made to measure
A white frame for paintings on stretched canvas, with a reverse profile that carries its highest point next to the picture and falls away towards the wall. The moulding is 67 mm wide and the rebate runs 20 mm deep, so it takes a thick stretcher without packing or alteration. I paint and finish each frame myself, to the measurements of one particular work....
White gold picture frame, water gilded and made to measure
A narrow gallery moulding, 24 mm across the face, water gilded with 6-karat white gold leaf over gesso and bole. The tone is cool and close to polished chrome, bright enough to hold its own beside a strong painting yet slim enough to stay out of its way. Made to measure for stretched canvases, photographs and prints, in any size you need....
White gold picture frame for deep edge canvas
A slim moulding gilded on the face with 6-karat white gold leaf over grey bole, with black sides sealed in the same shellac and wax, and a 40 mm rabbet. The face is 18 mm wide, so the frame reads as a fine cool line around the work, while the depth behind it takes a deep edge canvas, a box canvas or, with spacers, an object. Made to measure for one particular work....
White Gold Gilt Picture Frame, Antiqued by Hand
A wide picture frame gilded across the whole face in 6-karat white gold leaf, laid by the water gilding method over yellow bole and patinated by hand until the warm ground reads through the metal. The section is reversed, so the frame stands highest at the canvas. Made to measure for oil and acrylic paintings on stretched canvas....
White gloss picture frame for canvas and oil paintings
A white picture frame finished in high gloss lacquer, sprayed and flatted by hand so the shine runs unbroken along the whole length. The 72 mm moulding carries a rounded crest near the painting and a deep hollow through the centre of the face, and the same section is available in satin white. I cut and join every frame to the measurements of your painting....
White box picture frame, made to measure in white or black
A plain box picture frame with a 20 mm wide moulding and a 30 mm thick side, made to measure in satin white or black. The corners are mitred, splined and sanded before any paint goes on, so the mitre does not show as a seam across the face. The 20 mm rabbet takes canvas on a stretcher, board or panel....
White and gold picture frame with gilded sight edge, 70 mm
A white and gold picture frame, made to measure. The 70 mm moulding is hand painted in a satin off-white, and the whole zone beside the artwork is water gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over a grey bole ground. Rebate 10 or 20 mm, for oil and acrylic paintings on stretchers as well as panels and prints on rigid supports....
White and gold picture frame with 23-karat gold leaf
A white picture frame with two hand-laid bands of 23-karat gold leaf running the length of an 80 mm moulding. I paint and gild each one myself, to the measurements of one particular painting, photograph or work on paper. The shade of gold and the colour of the bole beneath it can be changed on request....
White and gold picture frame with 23-karat gold leaf
A white and gold picture frame made to measure: a wide, flat canted frieze in off-white, closed on either side by beads of genuine 23-karat gold leaf water-gilded over red bole. A fine, controlled craquelure across the white and the warm glow of burnished gold make a classic gallery frame for oil paintings and works on canvas....
White and Gold Picture Frame for Canvas Paintings
A white and gold picture frame built as a deep double frame for paintings on stretched canvas. The sides are hand-painted with the texture of the brush left visible, the front face water-gilded with 22-karat moon gold leaf. Also available in black with 23-karat yellow gold....
Turquoise and gold picture frame for oil paintings
A turquoise picture frame with two narrow gilded steps, one at the painting and one at the outer edge, set either side of a wide flat frieze. I paint the colour by hand and lay the gold leaf myself, on a 56 mm moulding cut and joined to the measurements of one particular canvas....
Thin gold picture frame, 13 mm moulding in 23-karat gold leaf
A thin gold picture frame with a 13 mm face, water gilded by hand in 23-karat gold leaf over red bole, with the sides hand painted in yellow ochre. Behind that thin face the moulding is 38 mm thick, with a 30 mm rabbet that takes a deep stretcher, so the frame reads as a fine gold line and still holds a substantial canvas. I make each one to measure for a single work....
Slim palladium picture frame with a deep rabbet and black sides
A slim picture frame made to measure, its face gilded in genuine palladium leaf and its sides painted black to a satin sheen. The moulding is 18 mm wide and 45 mm thick, and the rabbet runs 40 mm deep, so the frame closes over a thick stretcher, a mounted object or an air gap. Palladium holds a cool, silvery white reflection that does not tarnish with the years....
Slim gold picture frame with a deep rabbet for thick canvases
A slim gold picture frame made to measure, with a face gilded in genuine 23-karat gold leaf and sides painted black to a satin sheen. The moulding is 18 mm wide and 45 mm thick, and the rabbet runs 40 mm deep, so the frame closes over a thick stretcher, a mounted object or an air gap rather than sitting flat against the work....
Silver leaf picture frame for canvas paintings
A hand-silvered picture frame for oil and acrylic paintings on stretched canvas, gilded with pure silver leaf and patinated by hand. The 80 mm face and 48 mm depth take stretcher bars up to 30 mm thick. Made to measure in my workshop, to the dimensions of your painting....
Shabby Chic Picture Frame, Hand-Painted in Four Colours
An 80 mm moulding with a rounded bead close to the artwork and a broad half-round hollow across the face, hand-painted and patinated in white, grey, blue or pink. The rabbet takes a stretcher up to 20 mm thick. I cut and finish each frame to the size of one particular work....
Rounded gold leaf picture frame in gilded wood
A gold leaf picture frame whose whole face is one convex curve: the 40 mm moulding rises straight from the rabbet in a single half-round and closes on a narrow outer wall. The gold is laid by hand over red bole, in 23-karat leaf, and I cut every length to the measurements of one particular painting....
Round Picture Frame with Tondo for Canvas Paintings
A round picture frame with a tondo – a handcrafted, deep solid-wood moulding, painted black with a satin finish, its narrow tondo ring gilded with 22-karat moon gold leaf. Each frame is made individually, to measure, with a choice of frame colour and bole colour beneath the gilding....
Round Frame with Tondo and Gilded Edge
A round frame built around a tondo: a 90 mm moulding painted black by hand, with a water-gilded edge in 22-karat moon gold running around the opening. The opening follows the stretcher behind it, so a square or round stretcher gives a circle and a rectangular one an oval....
Reverse Profile Picture Frame, Painted and Patinated by Hand
A picture frame built on a reverse profile: the section is highest at the painting and falls away towards the wall, so the frame carries the edge of the work towards the viewer. I paint it by hand directly onto the wood, in any of 19 muted colours, and patinate it along the edges and steps of the profile. The moulding is 75 mm wide (about 3 inches), and I make every frame to the size of your painting....
Modern picture frame in white or black, made to measure
A plain modern picture frame in white or black, made to measure for your painting. The moulding is a flat 33 mm face with a 20 mm rebate, deep enough for a stretched canvas or a painting panel. Corners are mitred, splined and sanded before the paint goes on, so the front of the frame reads as one continuous surface....
Modern flat picture frame in 6-karat white gold leaf
A modern picture frame in solid wood, water-gilded by hand in 6-karat white gold leaf over red bole. The flat 20 mm face carries a cool, almost chrome reflection, and the sides are hand-painted black with a satin sheen. I make it to measure for contemporary painting, photography and prints....
Modern Black Picture Frame with White Gold Leaf
A modern black picture frame with two narrow bands of 6K white gold leaf running either side of a wide, flat frieze in satin black. I water gild the bands by hand and paint the frieze myself, so the face reads as two cool metal lines holding a dark field. Moulding 72 mm wide, rabbet 20 mm deep, made to measure for a stretched canvas....
Modern Black Lacquer Picture Frame, 75 mm Wide
A modern black picture frame in lacquered finish, 75 mm wide, made to measure for one particular painting. The whole face is sprayed black and falls away in a single broad hollow, with gloss or semi-matt chosen in the order menu. The deeper rebate option takes a stretched canvas up to 20 mm thick....
Made-to-Measure Gilded Picture Frame – White Gold Leaf & Black
A deep, traditionally built solid-wood frame, water-gilded by hand and made to measure. The 79 mm wide, 67 mm deep profile suits oil paintings, works on canvas and larger formats that call for a clear, confident border....
Light Grey Dutch-Style Picture Frame
A light grey picture frame with a Dutch-style reverse profile: the moulding is at its highest beside the painting and slopes down towards the wall. It is 67 mm wide, about 2⅝ inches, painted by hand in layers, patinated and waxed to a satin sheen. I make each frame to measure for paintings on stretchers up to 20 mm (about ¾ inch) thick....
Large gilded picture frame in 23-karat gold leaf
A large picture frame water gilded in 23-karat yellow gold leaf, built for paintings that need scale. The moulding is 180 mm across the face and 70 mm from the face to the back plane, with a wide black cove running between two gilded bands. The rebate starts at 35 mm deep, so it takes thick stretchers and deep-edge canvases....
Italian-style black picture frame with 22-karat moon gold
A black picture frame in the Italian cassetta style: a wide satin black frieze set between two narrow mouldings water gilt with genuine 22-karat moon gold over red bole. I make every frame to measure for paintings on canvas and stretchers, without glass; rabbet depth of 10 or 20 mm to choose from....
Hand-painted picture frame with a 23-karat gold leaf edge
A flat picture frame, hand-painted in one of eighteen colours and closed at the artwork side with a narrow band of genuine 23-karat gold leaf. The moulding is 50 mm wide, mitred and reinforced with wooden splines, and I cut every frame to the size of your painting. Made for oil and acrylic on canvas, prints, drawings and photographs....
Hand-painted picture frame for oil paintings, made to measure
A picture frame I paint and finish by hand, one at a time, in four colours: black, dark brown, navy and grey. Under each colour there is a second, contrasting ground that reads through the patinated surface, so no two frames come out the same. The face is a narrow 25 mm, the section a deep 30 mm, so a stretched canvas up to 20 mm thick sits straight in. Made to the size of your painting....
Hand-Painted Grey Picture Frame for Oil Paintings
A grey picture frame I hand-paint in a deep, box-like profile. Layer on layer of paint, worn back at the edges to reveal warmer tones, so no two frames are alike. I make it to measure for oil and acrylic paintings on canvas....
Hand-Painted Brown Picture Frame for Oil Paintings
A hand-painted brown frame for oil paintings on stretched canvas, finished with a light patina and a satin sheen. The moulding is 55 mm wide, about 2⅛ inches: a broad flat set between a small bead at the painting and a raised, rounded outer edge. I make each frame to measure, for canvases up to 20 mm (¾ inch) thick....
Hand-Finished Picture Frame for Canvas, 18 Colours
A hand-rubbed picture frame for canvas in solid timber, with a classic 55 mm profile featuring a half-round torus and frieze. Three layers of richly pigmented paint from a curated artisan range, hand-rubbed to bring through the colours beneath. 18 finishes — from blacks and deep greens to greys, navies and earth tones. Made to measure....
Hand carved gilded frame for paintings, 23 karat gold leaf
A hand carved gilded frame for paintings. The ornament band is cut by hand into a 110 mm cassetta moulding, then water gilded with 23 karat yellow gold leaf over red bole, with a wide hand patinated frieze running across the centre. Antique style drawn from Italian Renaissance framing, made to the measurements of one particular painting....
Grey Picture Frame for Oil Paintings with 12-Karat White Gold Trim
A classical picture frame painted by hand in two matched greys, with gilded accents in real 12-karat white gold leaf: a cyma with a half-round bead at the artwork edge, a 3 mm gold step across the face and a quarter-round crowning the outer edge. The moulding is 70 mm wide, about 2¾ inches. I make it to the size of your painting, and the two greys, the gold tone and the mounting are all settled per order....
Grey and gold picture frame with 22-karat moon gold leaf
A grey and gold picture frame made to measure for paintings on canvas: a wide hand-painted panel held between two bands of genuine 22-karat moon gold leaf, water gilded over a dark blue bole. The moulding is 56 mm wide, with a rebate of 13 or 20 mm to take a stretcher. The same profile is also made with a yellow panel and 23-karat yellow gold leaf....
Green Wooden Picture Frame, Hand-Painted and Made to Measure
A green picture frame made to measure and painted by hand, so the grain of the timber and the marks of the brush remain part of the finish. I make it in light green or dark green on a 55 mm moulding (about 2⅛ inches), patinate the edges by hand and seal the surface with shellac and wax to a satin sheen. It is supplied without glazing, ready for a painting on a stretcher....
Green and Gold Picture Frame for Oil Paintings
A wide green and gold picture frame in deep bottle green, with two hand-gilded lines of genuine 23-karat gold leaf. A flat, gallery-style 100 mm profile that frames an oil painting, landscape or portrait without competing with it. I make it to measure in my workshop....
Gold tray frame for canvas, water gilded in 23-karat gold leaf
A tray frame for paintings on canvas. The face is a single half-round bead 20 mm wide, water gilded in 23-karat gold leaf and burnished; the sides and the inner frame are hand-painted black. The whole frame is sealed with shellac and wax to a satin sheen. The stretcher sits on the inner frame, leaving a 10 mm gap around the canvas. Moulding 20 mm wide and 45 mm from face to back....
Gold shadow box frame with a deep 40 mm rabbet
A gold shadow box frame made to the size of one particular piece, narrow at the front and roomy inside. The face is 18 mm wide and the rabbet runs 40 mm deep, so the frame closes over a thick stretcher, and with spacers it holds a medal, a textile or a small object with air around it. The face is water gilded in 22-karat gold leaf over grey bole and patinated by hand....
Gold Leaf Picture Frame with Hand-Painted Sides
A narrow picture frame with its face fully gilded in genuine gold leaf and its sides painted by hand, made to measure for one specific work. The 25 mm face, about 1 inch across, is water gilded in the leaf you choose: 23-karat yellow gold, 22-karat moon gold, or 12-karat or 6-karat white gold. At 45 mm (1¾ inches) from face to back, it takes a stretched canvas as readily as a work on paper....
Gold Leaf Picture Frame for Oil Paintings – 23-Karat Water Gilding
A gold leaf picture frame for oil paintings on canvas, water-gilded in 23-karat gold over red bole and burnished with an agate stone to a mirror sheen. The face is a single bold convex arch, 32 mm wide, and the 17 mm rebate takes a stretcher up to 15 mm thick. Every frame is cut to the dimensions of your own painting....
Gold leaf picture frame for canvas paintings, made to measure
A gold leaf picture frame for paintings on canvas: a deep moulding, 44 mm wide and almost square in section, water-gilded by hand with genuine leaf. Five finishes to choose from, from 23-karat yellow gold to palladium with hand-painted black sides. I make every frame to the size of your artwork....
Gold Leaf Floating Frame for Canvas Paintings
A floating frame for paintings on canvas, made to measure. The face is water gilded with 22-karat moon gold leaf on blue bole and burnished with an agate stone; the sides and the inner frame are hand-painted black. The same moulding is also made in a standard version that overlaps the edge of the canvas. Moulding width 24 mm, thickness 45 mm....
Gold gilt picture frame, hand-gilded with 22-karat gold leaf
A gold gilt picture frame with a moulded 50 mm face, water-gilded across the whole face in genuine 22-karat gold leaf over plum bole and burnished with an agate stone. On the frame photographed the gilding is even and closed, and the tone of the metal is cooler and paler than classic yellow gold. I make each one to the measurements of your painting....
Gold box picture frame gilded with 23-karat gold leaf
A gold box picture frame with a narrow 15 mm face and a 30 mm section, gilded in 23-karat yellow gold leaf over a yellow bole and left bright, without patination. The rebate is 24 mm deep, so a stretched canvas over 2 cm thick sits fully inside the frame instead of standing proud of it. Made to the size of your artwork....
Gilded Wood Picture Frame with Burr Oak Veneer
A narrow gilded face and a deep flank of burr oak veneer: two materials that most workshops never put on the same moulding. The 22 mm face is water gilded with 22-karat moon gold leaf over plum bole, then burnished and lightly patinated; the 45 mm side is faced with burr oak, French polished and waxed to a satin sheen. A 40 mm rabbet takes deep stretchers. Made to measure for your painting or photograph....
Gilded picture frame in moon gold over grey bole
A picture frame water gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over a grey bole ground. The grey underlayer cools the metal, so the surface reads as a pale, silvery gold rather than a warm yellow one. A 32 mm moulding with a convex ridge across the face and a 9 mm rebate, made to measure in my workshop....
Gilded Picture Frame for Paintings with a Choice of Gold Leaf
A gilded frame for paintings with a 25 mm face carried entirely in real gold leaf and a hand-painted black side. You choose the leaf and the colour of the bole underneath it separately, so the same profile can read as full yellow gold, as pale moon gold or as an almost chrome-cool white. Made to measure for one particular work....
Gilded photo frame in 23-karat gold leaf, made to measure
A gilded photo frame made to measure, with a 13 mm face water gilded in genuine 23-karat gold leaf over red bole and the sides hand painted in black or yellow ochre. The moulding is 25 mm thick with a rebate 20 mm deep, so it suits a photograph or a print as readily as a canvas on a standard stretcher....
Gilded Dutch Frame for Oil Paintings, Made to Measure
A Dutch frame in a fully gilded version: a reverse profile with a flat frieze, bordered on both sides by a run of rounds. The moulding is 68 mm wide with a 20 mm rebate, so it takes standard stretchers. I gild it by hand, on water, leaf beside leaf, and I make every frame to the measurements of one particular painting....
Floater Frame for Oil Paintings on Canvas, 23-Karat Gold Trim
A floater frame for paintings on stretched canvas, built without a rebate so that the canvas hangs free inside a deep chamber. The broad face is hand painted in latte, the outer side in soft grey, and the two raised edges that hold the face between them are water gilded in real 23-karat gold leaf. The moulding is 33 mm from face to back, about 1 5/16 inches, and every frame is built to the size of one particular stretcher....
Dutch Black Picture Frame, Made to Measure for Canvas
A black picture frame built on a Dutch section: the highest point of the moulding sits at the painting rather than at the wall, so the edge of the work is carried towards the viewer. The moulding is 67 mm wide and 32 mm thick, painted black by hand and finished to a satin sheen, with a 20 mm rabbet that takes a standard stretcher. I make each frame to the size of your painting....
Dutch Black Picture Frame with a 23-Karat Gold Sight Edge, Made to Measure
A Dutch black picture frame, made to measure for oil paintings on canvas. The face is hand-painted in satin black and the gold sits in one place only, on the half-round at the opening, water gilded in genuine 23-karat leaf over red bole. A substantial section: 79 mm across the face, just over 3 inches, and 67 mm from face to back....
DIstressed white picture frame
A distressed white picture frame made to your measurements in my workshop. The moulding is 67 mm wide and carries a reversed profile, hand painted in an off white chalk tone, patinated and waxed to a satin sheen. The rebate is 20 mm deep and takes a standard stretched canvas without glass. Light grey is available as an alternative....
Deep White Gold Picture Frame for Canvas
A narrow, deep moulding: 22 mm across the face, 48 mm from face to back, with a 42 mm rabbet that takes thick stretcher bars. The face is water gilded with 6-karat white gold leaf, the sides are finished in satin black. I make each frame to the size of one particular painting....
Deep white box frame for canvas paintings
A white box frame for paintings on stretched canvas, made to measure. The moulding is a plain 50 mm square section and the rebate runs 45 mm back, so it takes a deep gallery stretcher without packing. I mitre and join the corners before any colour goes on, then spray the white in coats until the four sides read as one continuous surface....
Deep rebate picture frame for canvas, hand painted
A narrow picture frame with a deep rebate, built for paintings on stretched canvas: an 18 mm face on a 30 mm deep section. I paint every length by hand in thin coats, so the grain of the timber stays legible under the colour, then patinate it and polish it with wax to a satin sheen. Bottle green, brown, black, or white without patination....
Deep gold picture frame with 23-karat gold leaf
A deep gold picture frame with a narrow 30 mm face and a 50 mm section, gilded in 23-karat gold leaf over a yellow bole and left bright, without patination. The 43 mm rabbet takes a stretcher up to 4 cm thick, so a deep gallery canvas seats straight in. Made to the size of your painting....
Dark Wood Picture Frame for Oil Paintings
A wide dark wood picture frame for oil paintings on canvas: an 80 mm moulding, about 3⅛ in, hand-painted in a brown so deep it reads as black, with red worked through along the edges and the high points. I make each one to the measurements of a single painting and wax it to a satin sheen....
Dark Brown Picture Frame with a Dutch Reverse Profile
A dark brown picture frame with a reverse profile in the Dutch manner: the moulding is highest where it meets the painting and falls away towards its outer edge. I paint it by hand in a warm brown that reads almost black, over a red ground, then patinate it so the red shows on the raised parts. Made to measure for oil paintings on stretched canvas, 67 mm (about 2⅝ inches) across the face....
Custom Picture Frame “Casina 12” – Wide White Frame with 22K Gold Accents
Casina 12 is a wide white picture frame, handcrafted to measure — built around a dominant 120 mm frieze and gilded along the inner edge with genuine 22-karat moon gold leaf. The architectural section, satin white surface and the cool, restrained brilliance of the precious metal produce a setting with a gallery presence, calibrated for contemporary oil and acrylic painting and for fine-art photography....
Custom gold leaf picture frame, made to measure in 23-karat gold
A narrow gold leaf picture frame made to measure, water-gilded by hand in real 23-karat gold over red bole. The moulding is 22 mm wide and 46 mm thick, with a rabbet up to 40 mm deep, so one frame takes a deep stretcher, a work on paper with spacers, or an object in a box configuration....
Custom Black Picture Frame with Gold Trim
On this frame the gilding is held to a single narrow channel right at the edge of the canvas, a hand-laid gold trim in real gold leaf, while the rest of the 90 mm moulding, about 3½ inches, stays black and works as a quiet ground. That division of roles lets the gold lift the painting instead of competing with it. I make each frame singly, to the size of one particular work, in my workshop in Czarna Białostocka....
Custom black picture frame with a gilded cavetto
A wide black picture frame with a gilded cavetto at the sight edge: a 70 mm face, painted by hand and patinated, with 12-karat white gold leaf water-gilded over red bole along the 20 mm nearest the artwork. I make every frame to measure, in black or in dark brown....
A wide cream and gold picture frame, hand-gilded with 22-karat moon gold leaf at the inner edge and along the rounded outer edge. The 52 mm profile sweeps into a deep ivory cove, painted by hand to a satin sheen. I make it to measure for your oil painting or work on canvas, with a rabbet in two depths....
Cream and Blue Picture Frame with 23-Karat Gold Trim
A wide classical moulding, 70 mm across (about 2¾ inches), painted cream on the face with blue sides and three bands of genuine gold leaf. The gold is 23-karat, laid on water over a prepared ground, so it sits on the profile itself rather than over paint. Seen from the front the frame reads cream and gold; the blue appears as you move past it, or when you stand beside the painting. Made to measure in my workshop, one frame at a time....
Closed corner picture frame with rounded corners
A closed corner picture frame with rounded corners, made to measure for your painting. The corners are joined, filled and sanded before any paint goes on, so the radius runs round the frame as one unbroken surface. The face is a flat 22 mm and the rebate is 30 mm deep, which takes a deep stretched canvas or a shallow object....
Chalky white picture frame, made to measure
A classical handmade picture frame in a warm chalky off-white — finished by hand from solid low-tannin timber. The 52 × 38 mm profile has a clear classical drawing: quarter-round, deep scotia, narrow frieze and an inner bead at the rabbet. A gentle half-round cove softens the outer side wall....
Bottle green picture frame with 23-karat gold trim
Deep bottle green, hand painted and finished with French polish and wax, with a 23-karat gold trim laid leaf by leaf over gesso and bole. The moulding is 52 mm wide, a little over two inches, and its scooped face carries the eye down towards the painting. I make every frame in my own workshop, to the measurements of your work....
Blue and gold picture frame for oil paintings
A hand-painted blue frame with a wide hollowed face, 75 mm across, and a single line of 22-karat moon gold leaf along the edge of the painting. Made to the dimensions of your canvas, for stretched canvas or a painting panel up to 20 mm thick....
Black wooden picture frame with visible wood grain
A black wooden picture frame with the grain left visible: I paint the 56 mm moulding, about 2¼ inches, by hand in thin layers of black and polish it with wax to a soft satin sheen. Solid, low-tannin timber, made to measure for paintings on stretched canvas....
Black Tondo Picture Frame, Made to Measure
A tondo frame closes a square canvas inside a circle. The 90 mm moulding is hand-painted in deep black with a satin sheen, and I cut the circular aperture into a flat panel set inside it, to the diameter your work needs. Painted throughout, with no gilding, and made for one painting at a time....
Black scoop picture frame with a gilded inner edge
A black scoop picture frame with gilded accents: the face is held by one deep, sweeping hollow that rises to a rolled crest at the outer edge, while a flat band of real gold leaf runs at the sight edge, right around the painting. I hand-paint the 86 mm moulding, about 3 3/8 inches, and water gild that band in 23-karat yellow gold, 22-karat moon gold or 12-karat white gold. Made to measure for paintings on canvas....
Black Picture Frame with Silver Leaf for Oil Paintings
A hand-finished frame for oil paintings: the outer face is painted black shading into dark brown, and the band next to the canvas is covered in genuine silver leaf, water gilded over gesso and grey bole, then patinated. The moulding is 46 mm wide, about 1¾ inches, and the profile is reversed, so the crown of the section sits at the artwork and the face falls away towards the wall....
Black picture frame with moon gold trim for oil paintings
A hand-painted black frame with a single gilded accent: one narrow concave arc laid in genuine 22-karat moon gold leaf, water gilded on red bole and burnished with an agate stone. The moulding is 75 mm wide, about 3 inches, and I make every frame to measure for oil and acrylic paintings on canvas....
Black picture frame with gold trim, made to measure
A black picture frame with a narrow gilded trim at the sight edge, water gilded in real gold leaf over a coloured bole. The 55 mm moulding lifts from that bright line to a high, rounded outer edge, and the satin black holds the eye on the painting rather than on the frame. I make each one to the measurements of one particular work, with the shade of the leaf and the colour of the bole chosen by you....
Black picture frame with gold trim, 70 mm
A black picture frame with a gold trim, 70 mm wide, made to measure. Genuine gold leaf runs along the sight edge, the rest of the moulding is hand painted black. Three gold tones and nine bole colours to choose from, water gilded over gesso in my workshop, with a 10 or 20 mm rebate for canvases and panels....
Black picture frame with gold trim, 22-karat moon gold leaf
A made-to-measure black picture frame carrying a single band of gold trim along the outer edge of the moulding. The 45 mm face rises from the artwork in one long slope, held in deep satin black; the flat band at the crest is gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over grey bole and burnished with an agate stone. Solid timber of a low-tannin species, mitred corners reinforced with wooden splines....
Black picture frame with gold trim
A flat black picture frame with a narrow gold trim at the sight edge: 23-karat gold leaf laid over red bole on a hand-painted moulding 50 mm wide. I make every frame to measure, for oil paintings, works on canvas, graphic art and photographs....
Black Picture Frame with Gilded Edges for Canvas Paintings
A black painted frame with gilded accents: both profiled edges are water gilded in genuine 23-karat gold leaf on red bole, while the broad flat between them and the side of the frame are painted black by hand. The moulding is 72 mm wide (about 2⅞ in) and the rebate 15 or 20 mm deep (about ⅝ or ¾ in). I make each frame to measure for one particular painting on canvas....
Black picture frame with Flemish corners, 100 mm
A black picture frame 100 mm wide, just under 4 inches, with Flemish corners and one band of genuine gold leaf laid in the hollow where the moulding meets the painting. Everything beyond that hollow is painted black, so the gold reads as a single bright line against the canvas rather than as a gilded surface. Made to measure, with a 20 mm rebate for a stretched canvas, in 23-karat yellow, 22-karat moon or 12-karat white gold....
Black picture frame with a white gold gilded edge, made to measure
A handmade black picture frame carrying a single band of 6-karat white gold leaf along the outer edge of the moulding. The 45 mm face rises from the rabbet in one even slope to a flat outer side gilded in white gold, while the face and the inner side stay in satin black. Solid timber, mitred corners reinforced with wooden splines, water gilding by hand, made to the size of your artwork....
Black picture frame with a rounded outer edge, 79 mm
A black picture frame 79 mm across the face, about 3⅛ inches, whose profile runs from a half-round bead at the painting, down into a hollow and up an ogee to a large rounded roll at the outer edge. I paint it by hand over a gesso ground, give it a light patina and seal it with shellac and wax to a satin sheen. Made to measure for paintings on canvas or panel up to 2 cm, about ¾ inch, thick....
Black Picture Frame with a Gilded Inner Border, 95 mm
A black picture frame 95 mm across the face, about 3¾ inches, with the gilded accents confined to a raised inner border at the edge of the painting. Everything beyond that border is hand-painted black and hand-patinated. The border itself is water-gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over red bole, and both the gold tone and the bole colour are chosen when you order. Made to measure for oil and acrylic on stretched canvas....
Black picture frame with a deep cavetto, made to measure
A black gesso picture frame made to measure in my workshop: a traditional gesso ground built up in coats and sanded flat, black worked in layer by layer, then sealed with shellac and wax and hand-polished to a satin sheen. The profile runs from a small bead beside the artwork, through a deep cavetto, to a rounded torus at the outer edge....
Black picture frame for oil paintings, made to measure
A black picture frame for oil paintings, cut to the size of one particular canvas. The moulding is 52 mm wide, hand painted in the workshop in successive coats and sealed with shellac and wax to a satin sheen. The rabbet comes in two depths, for standard and for deeper stretchers, and the corners are mitred at 45 degrees and reinforced with wooden splines....
Black Ogee Picture Frame with a Hand-Gilded Inner Edge
A wide black picture frame made to measure, 100 mm across the face, with a narrow band of gold leaf laid by hand at the inner edge. The flat frieze is painted deep black and finished to a satin sheen, and towards the outside the surface climbs through an ogee to a flat crown. Genuine leaf over red bole, in 23-karat yellow, 22-karat moon gold, 12-karat or 6-karat white gold....
Black high-gloss picture frame for canvas, made to measure
A black picture frame in high-gloss lacquer, built up in coats over a hand-prepared ground and polished to a mirror-like surface. The 75 mm moulding rises from a half-round hollow beside the artwork to a narrow torus at its highest point, then falls away into a deep cove. Made to measure for canvas and oil paintings, with mitred corners reinforced by wooden splines....
Black Hand-Painted Picture Frame, Made to Measure
A black picture frame 70 mm across the face, about 2¾ inches, painted by hand in the workshop and finished to a satin sheen. The section reads as a hollow: a cavetto at the artwork, a wide flat holding the centre, and a scoop lifting to a flattened crest at the outer edge. Made to measure for oil and acrylic on stretched canvas....
Black Gloss Picture Frame with Gold Trim in Real Gold Leaf
A black picture frame with a gold trim: two narrow milled bands, gilded in real gold leaf, close a wide black frieze on either side. I gild them in 22 karat moon gold or 23 karat yellow gold over red bole and seal the frame with lacquer, for a high gloss. Moulding 72 mm wide, rabbet 20 mm deep, made to measure....
Black Flemish Picture Frame with Moon Gold Trim
A painted black picture frame with Flemish corners and a single gilded accent: the hollow at the inner edge is water gilded in genuine 22-karat moon gold leaf over red bole and burnished with an agate stone. The moulding is 100 mm wide, about 4 inches, and I make every frame to the size of your painting....
Black Flemish Picture Frame with 23-Karat Gold Trim
A painted black picture frame with Flemish corners and a single gilded accent: one warm line of genuine 23-karat yellow gold leaf, water gilded over red bole and burnished with an agate stone, runs along the hollow at the inner edge. The moulding is 100 mm wide, about 4 inches, and I make each frame to the size of your painting....
Black Dutch-Style Picture Frame for Oil Paintings, with a Gold Edge
A black frame in the Dutch style, painted by hand, with a single gilded accent: a line of genuine gold leaf along the inner edge, water gilded and burnished with an agate stone. The moulding is 75 mm wide, about 3 inches, and I make each frame to measure for oil and acrylic paintings on canvas....
Black Dutch Picture Frame with Hand-Carved Corners
A black picture frame with a Dutch reverse profile and an ornament I carve by hand at each corner. I paint and patinate the black by hand, so a warm red ground shows on the carved corners and on the raised parts of the moulding. Made to measure for oil paintings on stretchers up to 20 mm (about ¾ inch) thick, with a moulding 67 mm (about 2⅝ inches) wide....
Black and Gold Picture Frame with a Gilded Inner Frame
A black picture frame with gilded accents, made in two parts: a black outer moulding, hand painted and waxed to a satin sheen, and a separate inner frame against the painting, water gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over red bole. It is 62 mm wide overall, just under 2½ inches, and made to the size of your painting, with a 10 or 20 mm rebate for canvas on a stretcher....
Black and gold picture frame with 22-karat gold leaf
A black picture frame in which the gold sits where it is seen first: on the narrow fillet at the artwork and across the whole quarter-round hollow beside it, laid leaf by leaf in genuine 22-karat gold over red bole. Beyond the crown of the profile the black face runs out in a broad cove to a stepped outer edge. An 80 mm moulding, water-gilded and painted by hand, made to the measurements of one particular painting....
Black and Gold Oil Painting Frame
A hand-painted black oil painting frame in two brushed tones of black, with an edge gilded in 22-karat gold leaf and revealed through sgraffito. An off-white inner liner acts as a passe-partout, separating the canvas from the deep, convex moulding. I make each one to measure, in the colour and shade of gold you choose....
Black and Gold Leaf Frame for Canvas Paintings
A 69 mm reverse-profile frame for stretched canvas: the flat frieze at the sight edge is water-gilded with genuine gold leaf, the rest of the face hand-painted in satin black. I make it to the dimensions of your artwork, either with a classic rabbet or as a floater, with a visible gap running round the canvas....
Black and Gold Frame for Oil Paintings, Hand-Gilded
A deep, classic black frame for oil paintings, hand-painted with a satin finish and a narrow lip gilded in 22-karat moon gold over red bole. The substantial moulding (79 mm wide, 67 mm deep) gives canvas work a calm, gallery-style setting. Made to measure for your painting, with a choice of gold and bole colour....
Black and gilt picture frame, 110 mm wide
A wide black frame with gilded accents, made to the size of your painting. The face is 110 mm across, about 4 and a third inches, and the hollow that runs against the picture is water gilded in 22-karat moon gold leaf over a red bole. The black is hand painted and patinated, with a satin sheen. Built for oil paintings on stretchers up to 20 mm thick....
Antique-Style Gilded Picture Frame, Black and White Gold Leaf
A black picture frame in the antique manner, built on a reverse profile: the crown of the section stands at the artwork and the face falls away to a wide, flat frieze. The rounds are water gilded in 6-karat white gold over red and yellow bole, then worn back by hand, and the black frieze carries a worked craquelure. Made to measure for oil and acrylic paintings on stretched canvas....
Antique-style gilded picture frame in 23-karat gold leaf
A gilded picture frame with the character of an antique gilt frame, newly made in my workshop. The 55 mm moulding is water gilt across the face and the sides in genuine 23-karat gold leaf laid over red bole, burnished with an agate stone and then patinated by hand, so the warmth of the red ground reads through the metal. I cut every frame to the size of one particular painting....
American Box Frame: Gold Floating Picture Frame Made to Measure
An American box frame built from two mouldings: the painting is seated in an inner frame and separated from the gilded outer frame by an open channel 20 mm wide. I make each one to the size of the individual canvas, with a 15 mm front laid in gold leaf by water gilding, four shades of gold and nine bole colours to choose from....