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On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:25 -0500, Mark Weiss wrote: > There are framers who are truly artists, but most frames are very > easy to make. I am very lucky that a framing studio exists within walking distance of the rural town I live in. I do not have the skills nor the ability to cut custom matts and make custom frames, as this framing studio does. So relatively speaking, given the costs of learning,materials et al, $100 for a standard single custom frame is not that great a cost. Wood, museum rag board and non-reflective glass purchased retail by myself would match or even exceed what a framing studio can offer, as well. These materials are costly. Triptych are different and far more costly being three 14x14 inch monochrome selenium toned prints with roughly a three inch matt. No way do I have, nor can I acquire, the sort of skill needed for this sort of frame. Triptych are not just any three prints thrown together but a complex interactive haptic space and are horrendously difficult and can drain energy from you at a rather too fast rate. Being limited by costs to two triptych frames, some 56 by 22 inches, with matt, could be seen as a kind mercy on behalf of the framer. Perhaps somewhat ironic but irony aside, best wishes, Chris Jones. (PS The material costs of the prints alone exceeds $100, according to the quick sums I have done.)