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Some of the limitless variations and possibilities of frame design.

One piece to the left was an article used a burl frame and created a faux burl panel, french line (hand-ruled thin lines on the mat) and painted bevels to play up the article and connect to the frame.  The Framing Samples pages shows many of these pieces and includes a short description of how they were designed

For more ideas check out Framing Samples and Shadow/Memory Boxes