Framing Tutorials

Nine short how-to videos from our shop, each on its own page with written steps. Most run one to four minutes. Pick the job you are doing.

Mounting a Canvas with Offset Clips

Securing a stretched canvas in a floater frame with offset clips, including how to pick the clip size and keep the gap even. Mount a canvas with offset clips.

Options to Install your Artwork

The two ways to hold prints, photos and paper art in a frame: a point gun, or manual points if you do not have one. Install artwork in a frame.

Mounting a Canvas in a Traditional Frame

Seating a stretched canvas in a traditional frame and securing it with points, plus the depth check to make first. Mount a canvas in a traditional frame.

How to Put Together a Ready to Assemble Frame

Joining a frame that arrived in four pieces using wood glue and the dovetail plugs that shipped with it. Assemble a ready to assemble frame.

How to Put Together a Ready to Assemble Floater Frame

The same joinery on a floater frame, where corner alignment shows in the gap around your canvas. Assemble a ready to assemble floater frame.

How to Mount a Canvas to a Floater Frame

Mounting a canvas by screwing through the stretcher bars, the more permanent alternative to offset clips. Mount a canvas to a floater frame.

The Difference Between a Floater and a Traditional Frame

What each frame does, how depth works in both, and which one your artwork needs. Compare floater and traditional frames.

How to Attach a Sawtooth Hanger

The quick way to hang a smaller, lighter frame from the back of the top rail. Attach a sawtooth hanger.

Adding Hanging Hardware

Fitting D-rings and wire, which work on both floater frames and traditional frames. Add hanging hardware to a frame.

Need more help choosing the right frame?

If your frame shipped as a ready to assemble kit, the written assembly instructions are on our ready to assemble page. Hardware is not included with frames, so points, offset clips, D-rings, wire and sawtooth hangers are all in hardware.

Still not sure which frame or which clip size you need? Contact us and we will help you work it out.