A framer is someone who builds or creates frames. In construction work,

frames A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent. Frame and FRAME may also refer to: Physical objects In building construction *Framing (co ...

may be built from wood or metal and provide support and shape to a structure. In a related sense, framers may create

for art works, pictures, or mirrors. The term framer is also used for the authors of a formal text such as a constitution."Framer". def. 1. and "Frame, v." def. 5 and 7. ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) ©. Oxford University Press. 2009.

Woodworking

Building industry

{{see also, Framing (construction) In building construction a framer is a

carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. ...

who assembles the major structural elements of a wood-framed building called the framing. Framers build walls out of studs,

sill Sill may refer to: * Sill (dock), a weir at the low water mark retaining water within a dock * Sill (geology), a subhorizontal sheet intrusion of molten or solidified magma * Sill (geostatistics) * Sill (river), a river in Austria * Sill plate, a ...

s, and headers; build floors from joists,

beam Beam may refer to: Streams of particles or energy *Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy **Laser beam *Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles **Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...

s, and

truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembl ...

es; and frame roofs using ridge poles and

rafter A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as wooden beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof shingles, roof deck and its associated ...

s or trusses. Platform framing is the most common method of construction.

Timber framing

Timber framers are framers who work in the traditional style of

timber framing Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

, historically with wooden joinery. Timber framing is a type of light framing in which wood (as the building structure) and drywall framing are used.

Traditional chair making industry

{{main, Windsor chair In the traditional chair making industry, it was the bodger who produced the turned parts of a chair and the benchman who produced the

splats ''Splats'' ( el, Σπλατς) is a fanzine with comics. It is sold mainly within Patras as well as other cities. The volume does not number ant its stories are entirely humoristic. It has sold several volumes. See also *List of newspapers in Gr ...

, side rails and other sawn parts. However it was the framer who assembled and finished the chair with the parts supplied by the bodger and benchman.{{Cite book, last=Jenkins, first=J. Geraint, title=Traditional Country Craftmen, publisher=Amberley Publishing, location=Stroud, year=1965, page=123

Art

Picture framer

{{see also, Picture frame A picture framer is the person who builds picture frames for artwork and photographs. The first carved wooden frames as we know them today appeared on small

panel paintings A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together. Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panel painting was the normal method, when not pain ...

in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe. Framed panel paintings were made from one piece. The area to be painted was carved out, leaving a raised framing border around the outside edge, like a tray. The whole piece was then

gessoed Gesso (; "chalk", from the la, gypsum, from el, γύψος) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these. It is used in painting as a preparation for any number of substrates suc ...

and

gilded Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. A gilded object is also described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, the metal below was tradi ...

. Painting the image on the flat panel was the last thing to be done. Eventually, a more efficient method was developed which used mitred moulding strips. These strips were attached to a flat wooden panel which produced a similar result to the carved panel, but were more cost effective. The modern picture framer can use a variety of materials for the frame, but essentially the framing technique remains the same.{{cite journal, url=http://www.pictureframingmagazine.com/pdfs/FrameHistory/Aug98_pt1panelpaintings.pdf , journal=Picture Framing Magazine , title=A Survey of Frame History, part 1 , author=Diane Day , date=August 1998 , pages=82, 84 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028071325/http://www.pictureframingmagazine.com/pdfs/FrameHistory/Aug98_pt1panelpaintings.pdf , archive-date=October 28, 2006 Picture framing

Written text

A framer can be the creator, inventor or author of a formal text such as a law or

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...

.{{citation, title=Oxford English Dictionary, year=1933, page=509 A framer can also be a language translator who is responsible for producing the translated text.

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