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Questions for Picture Framers

40 years of picture framing experience Gadsby’s have been framing and restoring pictures since 1898, and I have been working there for forty years...

Gadsbys is closed!

Gadsby's Covid-19 Closure As instructed in yesterday's announcement that non-essential retail business must close Gadsby's is closed for at least...

Lions Ears Repair!

Two clients brought in lion ornaments (one lion, one lioness) for repair. Each ornament had one broken ear which was successfully repaired as shown...

Oil paintings cleaned

The images above show the before and after of an oil painting recently cleaned at Gadsbys. The patches on the side of the first image show just a...

Gadsby’s January Sale

Gadsbys will be starting their sale on the 2nd of January 2020. Items reduced by 25% or more will include all of the pictures in the gallery, and...

Cleaning Paintings

Cleaning paintings is one of our most common restoration tasks. Hopefully you can get a feel for the change we achieve from these images. But, in...

Beginning the process of repair

To begin the process of a total repair to this canvas we have removed the stretched canvas from the decorative gilt frame, and removed the tacks...

Repairing a ceramic dog

'Fido' came in a broken beast! He was in six large pieces and things didn't look good for him. Fido, our name for him not his owner's, was a large...

Difficult restoration jobs

This is one of the most difficult restoration jobs which we have accepted for many years. Follow its progress over the next few weeks to observe its...

Repairing a jug

Cricket Themed Jug Repair It may not be the Ashes Urn but for its owner this cricket themed Jug was valuable and worth repairing. Note: It is worth...

Piero Vertefeuille’s Artwork Exhibition

Dedicated to Vivienne. Piero Vertefeuille was born in Naples, Italy where he lived and worked until March this year, when he moved to the Leicester...

Damaged picture frame

Part of the feeling... Often we are asked to repair a frame rather than restore or repair a picture. It just shows that the frame is an integral...

Bust bust

Broken ornament This ornament came in looking a little 'worse for wear'. When she left she was looking very good again.

Gadsby @ Exeter Craft 4 crafters

Gadsby’s hope to see you at Exeter Craft4crafters Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th February 2019

Damaged Bust

Repairing / restoring a ‘bronze’ bust' This bust of a ladies head was brought in to the Market Place shop with a damaged ear and was not able to be...

Papercraft show – National Motorcycle Museum

Gadsby’s Stand @ Papercraft Show 9th Feb 2019

Was it hard to frame my pictures?

Framing 30 images - all at once Being a Framer provides never ending variety and a window onto the life of other people. Whether it is a football...

Framing – in 3D

Framing 3D Articles As professional framers we recognise that sometimes, for somethings some people will elect to use the D.I.Y. route to framing...

Cleaning an Oil Painting

Cleaning a Dutch Oil Painting This photograph features a hundred year old Dutch oil painting which has been half cleaned to highlight the difference...

Creative Craft Show Exeter 2018

...amazing array of products and demonstrations Our third show during the month of September was in the south west near Exeter at the Westpoint...

Crafting at Ally Pally – great show

Crafting at Ally Pally ...see you again at Ally Pally in April 2019, we hope Fresh from a few days in Manchester we headed down the M1 to Alexandra...

Crafting Show Manchester 2018

Event City - 2018. We recently travelled to the Event City exhibition centre, Manchester, where we took part in the autumn crafting show. It was a...

Fun to work with

Sometimes restoration work...needs a variety of skills Radha Krishna Picture See if you can spot all the damaged areas on the 'before' image...

Not all pictures we frame…

can be easily tucked under the arm!