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BOLECTION: a decorative moulding that separates two planes (or surfaces)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIMEWOOD: easily carveable straight grained hardwood, European. Harder than it’s north American counterpart \u2013 Basswood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACANTHUS: a plant \u2013 as a design motif it often represents rebirth, or immortality. Used for centuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SIGHT EDGE: the edge of the frame against the image area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SGRAFFITO: basically, it’s Italian for scratched. Scratching through a colour layer to reveal the colour underneath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PEARLS AND ASTRAGALS: a beading row or design with beads and bars \u2013 think morse code<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRIEZE: a panel of carved, sculpted or painted decoration,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLUTES: shallow grooves across a surface<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEDALLIONS: discs or raised round decoration places evenly or as anchors to corners<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OGEE: an s- shape, either soft or acute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SALVATOR ROSA: a 17th<\/sup> century painter, who has nothing to do with the frame styles named after him. The molding would have a high outer edge followed by a wider center swoop\/hollow, and a rounded raised sight edge \u2013 it leads your eye into the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EBONIZED: the darkening or blackening of wood to look like ebony using an acid and iron solution that darkens the actual grain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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