Welcome to the Picture Framing Directory web site.
This site provides a listing for Custom Picture Framing shops, Craft stores and Art galleries in the United States and Canada. To find picture framing suppliers and picture framing Vendors go here.
Custom Picture Framing continues to be a required service for finer homes and offices. Artist, consumers and businesses can use this directory to find a frame shop or art gallery. Each store submitted is listed whether it be a discount framer, chain store, or neighborhood picture framer or art gallery. Listings are by state.
A page for Canada is available to list your business.
A list of Picture Framing Distributors Suppliers & Vendors is here: Vendors.
Due to requests we have added a page for Art and Picture Frame Restorers.
If your store, custom frame shop, craft store, dealer, dealership, gallery, vendor, or supplier is not listed, please email to us with business name, address, and phone number for free listing. If you wish to riciprocate with a link exchange, list a link to us on your site, notify us, and your link will be posted immediately. We are always getting new listings. Thanks to those who help us keep our listings current and for any donations. A small donation will help maintain this site.
Picture Framing Stores & Art Galleries: We will add your web site link to your address listing if you reciprocate with a link to us. Add your Link.
We list venders, dealers & suppliers at no charge on our Vendors page. If you give us a reciprocal link listing, we will do the same for your company, just email. If you have supplies that will benefit the art industry, contact us. We also will place your banner ad for a small fee.
We also list your business, frame shop, art gallery, supplier, dealer, vendor or related business for sale at no charge so send us a note.
If you are hiring or are looking for a job in any of these related industries, visit our Jobs page. If you are looking, eMail us with your name, email and/or phone number and any further information about your qualifications you want listed.
If you wish to advertise on this site, Contact Us.
Refer to Vendors for a list of suppliers used by most Picture Framing operations. Included are major vendors as Larson-Juhl, Nurre, Omega & Roma.
According to the PPFA, in 1998 there were 17,299 custom frame retailers in the United States that generated $2.6 billion in custom framing sales.
Warren Buffett, the great investor of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has purchased a museum quality picture frame supplier (Larson-Juhl) recently forecasting to the world that this is a thriving industry. People benefit from picture framing every day whether it is at their home, at an office, museums, public buildings and government offices. Most people have something to frame at some time. In many homes, offices, galleries and museums framing fine art, collectibles, giclees, serigraphs, silkscreens, lithographs, maps, needlework, photography, prints, posters and children's art is a reoccurring event. Picture framing enhances the aesthetic features of art and collectibles. Whether the medium of the original art is acrylic, mixed-media, oil, pen, pastel, pencil, crayon or watercolor, the frame adds to the values of the art. Do you have something to frame today? If so, this directory may help you find a suitable picture framing service.
Incidently, a picture is defined as: A visual representation, illustration or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
Synonyms are: account, art, blueprint, canvas, cartoon, copy, delineation, depiction, description, doodle, double, draft, drawing, duplicate, effigy, engraving, figure, icon, image, impression, likeness, look-alike, outline, painting, panorama, photo, photograph, piece, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, print, re-creation, replica, report, representation, ringer, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, spectacle, spitting image, statue, tableau, twin
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Framing is described: To enclose in or as if in a frame: frame a painting.
Site first published 08/21/2005. Site last updated 03/30/2008
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