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2. Professional Picture Framers Association - Wikipedia

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   The Professional Picture Framers Association / PPFA is an international trade organization serving the art and framing community worldwide since 1971. Members include independent frame shop owners and staff, distributors and manufacturers of picture frame mouldings, supplies and equipment, art galleries, artists, and other businesses in the ...

3. Picture frame - Wikipedia

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   A picture frame is a container that borders the perimeter of a picture, and is used for the protection, display, and visual appreciation of objects and imagery such as photographs, canvas paintings, drawings and prints, posters, mirrors, shadow box memorabilia, and textiles. Traditionally picture frames have been made of wood, and it remains ...

4. Fillet (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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   A fillet corner sample. Note the flat "lip". In the picture framing industry, a fillet (also referred to as a slip) is a small piece of moulding [1] which fits inside a larger frame or, typically, underneath or in between matting, used for decorative purposes. [2] The picture framing term is probably related to, though not necessarily derived ...

5. Rabbet - Wikipedia

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   Rabbet. A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood. When viewed in cross-section, a rabbet is two-sided and open to the edge or end of the surface into which it is cut. An example of the use of a rabbet is in a glazing bar where it makes ...

6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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   Traditional timber framing is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with various joints, commonly and originally with lap jointing, and then later pegged mortise and tenon joints. Diagonal bracing is used to prevent "racking", or movement of structural vertical beams or posts. [ 14]

7. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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   In the picture framing industry, a mat (or matte, or mount in British English) is a thin, flat piece of paper -based material included within a picture frame, which serves as additional decoration and to perform several other, more practical functions, such as separating the art from the glass. Putting mats in a frame is called matting, a term ...