Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-11-07
PICTURE FRAME MOULDING.
Thousands Of Styles Now and Additions
Made to the Variety Yearly.

Picture frame mouldings, such as
are manufactured and sold by whole
sale in strips to be cut up as may be
required in the making Of picture
frames, are produced in uniform
lengths twelve feet. There are also
produced cheaper picture frame
mouldings in imitation Of some of these
woods, as of oak. These various
mouldings are made in many widths
and many thicknesses, and in great
variety of form; great numbers of
them with no ornamentation whatever,
and many Of them ornamented with
q beading or other design, which may
be carved in the wood by the machine
in which the moulding is made, or
pressed or stamped in the wood.
Sometimes this beading is gilded, or SO
treated as to look like oxidized metal,
and sometimes a straight, smooth line
or division of a wood moulding Is I'm
ished in the same manner.
Many picture frame mouldings are
finished in white; some in white with
another color; some are made In COM
binations Of colors, and some are made
in single colors, and these last may be
made in many shades. Then there Is
a variety of mouldings in black. Many
of these colored mould:ngs are plain
in design. And then there are many
of the colored mouldings that are
highly ornamented.
Of gilded picture frame mouldings
the variety produced is very large.
Some are gilded with gold; some with
q lacquer laid ON over silver leaf, and
some are gilded with a cheaper mater
ial.
Picture frame mouldings, taking
them altogether, are produced in thou
sands Of styles, and new styles are
constantly being added, these being
put on the market twice year, for
the spring and the fall trade. a pic
ture frame moulding manufacturer
producing mouldIngs in literally hun
dreds of styles would still produce
more or less new styles, twenty, per-
haps, or forty, each season. But ror
all the great variety offered there are
certain kinds and styles Of picture
frame mouldings that are staple goods,
and that sell steadily; just as there are
staple lines in all kinds Of merchan-
disc.
There are big factories devoted sole
ly to the manufacture Of picture frame
mouldings. Some manufacturers
make specially Of gilt mouldlngs,
some Of natural wood and other mould
ings, and in some factories all sorts
of mouldings, and frames as well, are
produced. Formerly picture frame
mouldings were all made In the East,
and mouldlngs are still made here;
but the great bulk is now produced
in the West, where the factories are
nearer the sources Of supply Of the
NOUu uSGu III luCll
AS compared with twenty years ago,
picture frame mouldings are now
made in far greater variety; and there
are produced far greater number of
artistic mouldings than ever. And
with the use of advanced modern ma.
chinery in their manufacture picture
frame mouldings are much cheaper
than they were in old times; sv hat it
zig nowadays possible to get from
among the great variety Of mouldings
offered suitable ard handsome
at low prices. AS compared with a
year or two ago, the wholesale prices
Of picture frame mouldings are now q
little higher than they were then, this
being due to the present increased cost
Of the lumber and other materials en-
tered into their manufacture.-New
York Sun.