The Complete Guide to Framing , Techniques & Materials, was written by Jenny Rodwell & George Short and published by F & W Publications in 1986. This is a hardcover first edition with dust jacket, has 144 pages, and is now out of print. ISBN: 0891341293.

This book shows you how to choose just the right frame for oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, needleworks, maps, and even three-dimensional artpieces - you'll learn quickly how to fram nearly anything that is frameable. 144 illustrated pages show you how to cut moldings and beveled mat windows; how to form tight corners and create rabbets; how to mat your artpieces and cut glass to fit your unique frames. They also cover the special effects you can use to peronalize your frames once they are constructed - marbling, gilding, wood-graining, tortoiseshelling, spattering, andtiquing, and others. Through 40 projects created specially for this book, you'll learn the basics of revovating oil and watercolor paintings, prints, maps, and documents plus repairing old frames, and decorating your home by mixing, matching, and grouping your framed artpieces.