About Us

We are professional picture framers offering a high quality service for your home and your business.

Located on a busy main street in the old market town of Helston, Cornwall.

MERLIN FRAMERS opened in 1999 and is owned and operated by John & Barbara Cooper. John was the first picture framer in Cornwall to be trained and qualified as a Guild Commended Framer (GCF) with the Fine Art Trade Guild (FATG)

MERLIN FRAMERS offer a bespoke picture framing service, a large range of 'ready made' frames, a small gallery and a wide selection of prints.  We also carry a large selection of Needle Art and accessories

Continuing the theme of high quality services MERLIN MOUNTS started supplying high quality conservation white core Photo mounts and Picture Mounts to the trade and retail via www.merlinmounts.co.uk in 2006. We have been very successful with this venture that we have had to purchased our second Computerised Mat Cutter. .

This state of the art Valiani PLUS-iS has enabled us to offer more complex designs that can only enhance your images and provide that unique and personalised Photo Mount and Picture Mount this is not available elsewhere. Our library of designs grows constantly, so please keep coming back to this site to see the exciting variations we have to offer.

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