The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06
IN MANY STYLES.
Picture Frame Mouldings Made Year
~ in Thousands Of Designs.
New York SUM


Picture frame holdings, such as are
manufactured and sold by wholesale
in strips to be cut up as may be re-
quired in the making Of picture frames,
are produced in lengths of twelve feet.
They are produced in pretty nearly all
natural woods. There are also pro
dUced cheaper picture frame mOldings
in imitation Of some of these woods, as
/ Of oak. These various holdings are
made in many widths and many thick
nessen. and in great variety Of form;
great numbers of them with no orna-
mentatiOn whatever, and many of
them Orramanted with a beading or
other de-ign, which may be carved in
the wood by the machine in which the
mOlding is made or pressed or STAMPED
in the wood. Sometimes this beading
is gilded. or so treated as to look ike
OxidiZed metal. and sometimes a
straight smooth line or division Of
wood mOlding is finished in the same
manner.
Many picture frame moldir'gs 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
q variety of holdings in black Many
of these colored holdings are plain in
design, and there are among them
many that are odd. And then there
are many Of the colOred holdings that
are highly OTnamented.
OF gilded picture frame holdings the
variety produced is very large. Some
are gilded with gold some with a.
lacquer laid en- over silver leaf. and
some are gilded with a, cheaper ma
tGrial
Picture frame holdings. taking them
altogether, are produced in thousands
of styles, and new styles are constant
! ~ being added, these being put on the
market twice a year. for the spring and
fall trade A picture frame holding
manufacturer producing holdings in
literally hundreds Of styles would still
/ produce more or less new styles, TWEEN
ty, perhaps, or forty, each season. But
for all the great variety offered there
are certain kinds and styles Of picture
frame holdings that are staple goods
and that sell steadily. just SIS there are
staple lines Of all kinds Of merchan-
| disc.
There are big factories devoted sole
~ to manufacture Of picture frame
holdings. Some manufacturers make
q speciality Of gilt holdings, some or
natural wood and other holdings. and
in some factories all sorts Of holdings,
ard frames as we'll are produced. For
merly picture frame holdings were all
made in the east, and holdings are still
made here; but the great bulk is now
produced in the west, where the factO-
RES are nearer the sources of supply
of the wood used in their manufacture
As compared with twenty years ago,
! picture frame holdings are low made
4 in far greater variety, and there are
| produced a far greater number OF ar
/ tiatic mOldiEgs than ever. And Win
/ the use of advanced modern machinery
1 in their manufacture picture frame
holdings are much cheaper than they
were in old times. so that 1t is now
adays possible to get from among the
great variety Of holdings offered suit
able and handsome frames at low
! prices. As compared with a year or
1 two ago, the wholesale prices Of pic
/ ture frame holdings are now a little
/ higher than they were then, this be-
/ ing due to the present cost Of the lum-
Der and other materials entering into
I their manufacture.