Framing Your Art With Hand-wrapped Fabric Mats

Framing Art for Record Store Day 2024

      Whenever you get a Grace Jones comp card to frame it better be glam! So we used this traditional High End matting style where you hand-wrap a mat with a beautiful fabric. for this classic 1981 photo by Jean-Paul Goude Our client chose a grey toned fabric and a stylish, elegant shiny […]

Skinny Custom Frame!

Another skinny custom frame we just built for a beautiful painting! We wanted to pick up on the long shape of the painting itself and the skinny stem in this colorful piece! Underglass Custom Picture Framing in San Francisco is framing since the 80s. Our two locations are open 7 days a week, we have […]

Classic Frame Design With Gold Leaf

For these beautiful flower photographs we created a dramatic classic frame design with a gold leaf frame and fillet. We loved how the lighting of the photographs and tried to continue that feeling into this custom photo frame design!

Sports Memorabilia Framing

Sports Memorabilia like old jerseys, baseball cards and most recent this signed @hunterpence bat are always fun to frame for us! We build this really dark walnut deep shadowbox as a solid frame that can house this amazing collector’s item. If you have an object or item that you always wanted to frame and enjoy […]

Photography And The Art Of Framing

As custom picture framers we love the combination of photography and the art of framing. For this amazing photo of what might be a starling we took inspiration from the wings of the bird and chose a frame with detail that mimics the feel of the feathers. We rounded out this classic looking picture frame […]

All the wonderful pieces of art we framed towards the end of this year!

Thank you San Francisco for letting us frame so, so many of your photos, paintings, prints, art and memories! We are truly humbled by the support and love you have shown is during these past special years. 2021 challenged all of us in ways we couldn’t imagine – here is to 2022! Your team from […]

Original Edward Curtis Photo Framed

We framed this original Edward Curtis Photo on tissue from 1908! Curtis traveled by foot and by horse deep into the Indian territories at the beginning of the 20th Century, he worked in the belief that he was in a desperate race against time to document the North American Indian before white expansion and the […]

Family Treasure Picture Frame

We felt honored building this family treasure picture frame. Our client’s dad graduated from West Point USMA in 1972. He was one of only three black cadets to graduate that year. We used a fabric mat and fillet to give it a structured, sharp look, classic frame design, but more importantly we used acid-free and […]

Happy Pride Month!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! We framed this signed @dannic100 print of the iconic Harvey Milk photo that was used for his famous postage stamp. Underglass Custom Picture Framing has been a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community from when it first opened its doors in 1982. In fact it is still owned by gay partners Matthias […]

Local Art framed right here in San Francisco!

We always say we are proud to be one of San Francisco’s oldest local frame shop and we are super proud to show you when we get a chance to frame local art! Local legend and style icon Billy Bragman looking like a million bucks in this photo he found of himself from a few […]