Towngate Framing

Framing Services for the Retail and Corporate Markets

Well Done Katie
We are all so proud of you

Katie 2009 Winner of the Mount Design Award
at the Fine Art Trade Guild's National Awards at the Brandon Hall in Coventry
after achieving 1st and 2nd in the 2009 Regional Framing Awards.

2005: National Finalist for Set-Piece Award
2005: National Finalist Mount Design Award
2006: National Finalist for Set-Piece Award
2006: National Finalist Free Thinking Award
2007: National Winner for Set-Piece Award
2007: National Finalist for Mount Design Award
2008 Regional 1st & 2nd Set-Piece Award Winner 2008: National Finalist for Set-Piece Award
2009: Regional Winner for Free Thinking Award 2009: Regional Winner for Mount Design Award Winner
2009: National Winner for Mount Design Award

Some track record.
Katie has always been a perfectionist and really enjoys her creative framing
no matter what the subject, and we certainly get a few challenges.

Towngate Framing revels in framing the unusual and quirky items as well as the more traditional framing work. We take in restoration work, take pride in our conservation framing and thoroughly enjoy the designing of the frames and mounts for the many different items we have brought into us from as far away as London, North Devon and the Midlands.

We understand how important the frame is to enhance the picture or item being framed but we also understand that the frame must be humble to the image or item and not detract from its importance, it is a fine art the professional picture framer must learn and we fully appreciate how much it can mean to a client to get it wrong. We will happily colour co-ordinate the framed work with the clients' decor and advise on the best ways to display artwork and protect it from fading and the ravages of time. At Towngate Framing we also have a studio that specializes in the repair, and re-printing of old photographs and the printing and stretching of canvases for our clients. The largest to date is a 5.7metres x 1 metre canvas for a local hotel bar and restaurant.

Overall we like to feel that we help our clients to enjoy their visit to our workshops when they bring their special items to us and we so enjoy giving them a framed item that they will have pleasure from and treasure for many years.

Towngate Framing proudly boast two Guild Commended Framers to produce quality framing of oils, watercolours, embroideries, tapestries, certificates and photographs, limited-edition and open prints, medals and many more unusual items.... even the odd cake or two !!!, and all at very reasonable prices.

We have been framing for a quarter of a century and have always prided ourselves on keeping up with the latest innovations as well as keeping the traditional skills and values of our framing, that we are so well known for. We keep over 750 different frame mouldings in stock and have a very wide range of mount boards styles and colours to help get the correct balance with your interior. Added to this a second to none knowledge of framing techniques and method, we like to think we can frame anything that our clients bring in to us. We are proud of the fact that we haven't turned a job away in over two decades and we have had work recommended to us from other local framers who have had large or complicated jobs that have been beyond their workshop capabilities.

We Frame to all five levels of the Fine Art Trade Guild standards, depending on our clients requirements and budgets.

Below are just a few of the unusual things we have had brought into us to frame for clients walls.


Train Name Plate The makers plate had to be bolted on to a previously sprayed aluminium backing plate before the frame construction could take place. This was one of two that we did for the same client.	Large Turkish Rug This hand made Turkish rug was one of our biggest jobs, and took a day just to stretch. It was valued at £10,000 and had to be framed using full conservation methods and materials.	Hand Painted African Tiles These hand painted Tiles were the pride and joy of our client's African safari and we enjoyed designing a box frame that was simple, yet complimentary to the native feel of these beautiful tiles.	Large Photo Collage This very large photographic collage was over 2 metres long and had to have laminated glass and security bolt fixings to ensure safety.


Ceremonial Sword This sword and scabbard had to be removable for wearing on special occasions. We achieved this by building specially made brackets into an oak cabinet for display without compromising it's removal.	Netsuke Box *We were recently commissioned to make a little cabinet to hold a client's collection of ivory netsuke's.*	England Football Tickets These tickets were a very fond memory of an England game that a client went to see for the first time with his son.	The Queen & Telegram A telegram from Queen Elizabeth to celebrate 100 years of life. such an achievement and a joy to frame.

Special Certificate Special things deserve special mounts and frames and this certificate was one of the growing number we now frame.	Iron Man Medal Photos, medal and competitor number are all presented in this frame worthy of the award.	London Marathon Medal &Certificate *This well earned medal and photos deserved a well thought out mount design.*	OBE Medal &Certificate A Delicate Mount Design has enhanced this very special award

Motorcycle Cake Top Icing sugar celebration cake top in a blue velvet box frame	Circle Embroidery Beautiful x-stitch with a double mount, gold line & corner cut-outs	Embroidery Dream Weaver x-stitch with beadwork in double , marbled mount	Isle of Man TT tiles Four rare Isle of Man sidecar TT ceramic racing Tiles in a box frame

Multiple Mount Sailing Photos with text box and added personalized artwork	Five Pound Wager Five Pound note with text box and added personalized artwork	Silver Locket In double oval mount & box frame	Record Album Cliff Richards Album & signed letter in a double mount

Medals Including button polisher & belt buckle in a box frame	Medals Including photo in a green velvet box frame	Medals Including photo, mounted and framed	Medals Medals from the first & second World Wars with soldiers names

Alabaster Plaque A cherub plaque with velvet inner box frame	Porthole With a photo of the ship from which the porthole was salvaged	Frame Restoration Old Frame during Renovation	Frame Restoration Fully Renovated Frame

Robbie Williams Tour Shirt Shirt from Robbie's 2006 tour shirt in a box frame and fixed to be removable	Wooden Masks Two African hand carved masks in a black box frame with natural wood frame	Boxing Belt *Rockies boxing Belt in box frame with black velvet and black frame*	Nobel Peace Prize Certificates & Medal in two piggy-back frames

3D Embroidery Picture Embroidery with raised flowers in a box frame with gold fillet and frame	Football Shirt Ryan Giggs football shirt with signed photo and certificate in a box frame and silver frame	Medals Victoria silver medals and coin in a blue velvet box frame with silver frame	Paper Fan Delicate Victorian paper fan in a purple velvet box frame with a gold frame

Broken Leg Cartoon The picture frame included the large pins from the leg repair	OBE Medal A beautiful medal and not one that is regularly framed	OBE Certificate *This rather grand certificate went with the medal*	Large Map *This frame, with the safety glass, took two people to* handle it into the van