Skills
34 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
2 skills
Essential skills / competences
11 skills
Optional knowledge
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Optional skills / competences
20 skills
Overview
Frame makers build and adjust mostly wooden frames for pictures and mirrors, following customer specifications for size, finish, glass and decoration.
In job descriptions, look for matching frames to pictures, wood cutting and joining, glass cutting, surface finishing, carving, decorative painting, restoration, antique frame repair and customer specifications.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Frame maker work combines customer specifications with careful wood, glass and finishing work. The maker measures, cuts, shapes and joins frame parts, fits glass and may decorate, repair or reproduce older frames.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes matching frames to pictures, wood manipulation, smooth surface preparation, glass cutting, carving, decorative painting, restoration techniques, minor scratch repair and furniture machinery.
Salary context
Salary context depends on craft precision, restoration difficulty, customer-facing design advice, glass handling, finishing quality, machinery use and whether the role includes antique or custom reproduction work.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward custom framing, restoration specialist work, workshop supervision, antique-frame reproduction, decorative finishing or broader joinery and furniture repair roles.
Good to know
Check adverts for frame materials, customer consultation, glass cutting, restoration scope, finishing methods, machinery, delivery handling and whether work is standard production or bespoke framing.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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Alternative labels
picture framemaker
mirror frame maker
frame repairer
mirror framer
frame-making machine setter
frame producer
picture frame restorer
frame restorer
frames creator
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mirror frame restorer
frames producer
frames fabricator
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frame creator
picture frame maker
frame-making machine operative
frame-making machine operator
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frame builder
mirror frame repairer
frame fabricator
picture frame repairer
framer
frames builder
frame-making machine tender
fine art framer
Occupation group
Carpenters and joiners (7115)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2dc86f3d-a90e-4e7a-8a94-0bd728f22d7b |
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| ESCO code | 7115.7 |
| ISCO group | 7115 |
| Concept type | Occupation |