The Roving Framer has been totting up the Airmiles again, and as ever, has kept a weather eye out for anything on the framing front that might be of interest to our lovely customers.
There wasn’t much in the way of framing examples in the African bush, admittedly, although quite a few of the wildlife photographs will find their way into something suitably woody and appropriate in the fullness of time. I could show off by posting pictures of elephant, rhino babies and lion, or, best of all, a pair of beautiful breeding leopards, but I won’t, because you might get jealous.
Less envy-inducing but very interesting were a couple of decor wheezes spotted in the wilds of what is now Gauteng (used to be the Transvaal), just outside Johannesburg. I was drawn to this rather traditional frame with fairly untypical contents: cutlery. I thought it was a brilliant way to display something that usually gathers dust in a forgotten drawer.
A display of very decorative cutlery…
At the same time, there were other examples of how to display disparate objects – opera glasses and a sugar crusher, anyone? Or a lady’s dressing table treasures, consisting of shoehorn, buttonhook and multiple thimbles. A clever way of turning unused curios into something to admire on the wall.
Frames containing interesting objects like opera glasses and thimbles…
I noticed that the silver parts of some of the framed items had tarnished slightly, even in the dry heat of South Africa’s Highveld, so thought that we could overcome that by including one of these clever little anti-tarnish strips into the back of the frame. They normally work by absorbing the tarnish-inducing pollutants in the air, so you tuck them into your silver drawer (if you are lucky enough to have such a thing in this day and age) and it saves you the tiresome task of polishing the family silver too often. Same principle should work in a smaller environment such as a frame.
A useful preventative measure…
Tilly