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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!

Plaque restored and re-hung

Joseph Bosworth plaque - restored and re-hung Three months after removing this huge plaque from Saint Ediths church in Monks Kirby, the day had...

Repaired Aynsley Mastercraft – two Kingfishers fighting for a fish

Aynsley Mastercraft Ornament after repair - Two Kingfishers fighting for a fish Now they can 'live to fight another day This repair went...

Patchings – all that is good about art, craft, and photography

Patchings 2018 - a fantastic spectacle This years Patchings event over in Calverton near Nottingham was a fantastic spectacle of all that is good...

Getting the restored church plaque ready for re-hanging

Church plaque nearly ready to hang again Nearly there with the restoration of the Church Plaque. Next week we will be re-hanging the plaque at St...

Patchings Festival 2018

The Patchings Festival is here again. This year Gadsbys have Caran D’Ache – Unison pastels – Posca pens – Uni-Ball pens – Daler Rowney all...

Paper Crafting Fair

Papercrafting and Stamping 7th July saw the Paper Crafting Fair at the National Motorcycle Musuem. With the focus on Papercrafting and Stamping...

Broken Aynsley Mastercraft – two Kingfishers fighting for a fish

Aynsley Mastercraft Ornament repair Not all repairs and restorations are for expensive items Sometimes you might have an ornament which you treasure...

New Jack Vettriano prints in stock

New Jack Vettriano prints With the continuing popularity of prints from Jack Vettriano we have added some new pictures to our gallery. Come in and...

Restoration taking shape

As the work on the church panels proceeds ...things are beginning to take shape Several weeks into this project and you should be able to see from...