Framing and Art Services Editing and Proofreading Services

A watercolour goes into a frame and comes back out eleven years later with a brown line burned across it where the mount touched, and a fade on the right-hand side that matches the window. The framing was competent, the customer was happy, and nobody wrote down that the mount was ordinary board and the glass was ordinary glass — because nobody was asked to choose.

We edit what framers and art services produce — quotations and materials specifications, conservation framing explanations, condition and receipt documentation for customer work, care and hanging guidance, trade and gallery terms, insurance and valuation correspondence, installation and delivery documentation, and workshop process notes. Our editors work on quotations that have to explain a choice a customer cannot see.

The framing quotation and its materials specification is where a framer either sells value or competes on price, and its failure is a total with a description of style. Everything that matters in framing is invisible once the piece is on the wall. We work through these so each material is named with what it does, since "conservation mount" is a line item and "cotton museum board that will not burn a line into the paper in a decade" is a reason; so the glazing is specified with its ultraviolet filtration and the difference stated in terms of what will happen to this particular work in this particular room, given that a customer cannot compare 45% and 99% but can understand a faded margin; so the hinging and mounting method is described with its reversibility, because the single most damaging thing in framing is an irreversible mount and customers have no idea it is a choice; so the backing, sealing and spacing are specified, as contact between glass and artwork is the other common failure; so a cheaper option is offered honestly with what it costs the work over what period, since a framer who only quotes the best specification loses the job and the piece; so the customer's own responsibilities are stated — where not to hang it, what a bathroom does, what a radiator does; so the receipt records the condition of the work as received; and so the quotation says what is not included. Quotations written this way justify the price without a conversation.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including quotations, customer information and trade terms. We are editors rather than framers or conservators, and we offer no view on materials, methods or the care of any work. What we can do is make the invisible choices visible on the page.