In article , "Martin"
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Charles Bishop wrote:
I need molding that looks like the old fashioned plaster molding used to
"picture frame" walls. That's the best I know how to describe it. It would
be half round, detailed, and was used to make a plain wall more
interesting.
Something like this

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I think I didn't explain my attempt at drawing-it's supposed to be the
outline of the finished "picture frame" where the lines are the molding
forming a picture frame, not the outline of the molding itself. The
corners are actually curved, rather than the straight lines I show. The
molding itself is very ornate with vines on it.

I did some Googling after I posted here and there are on line sources.
It's called panel molding and does come in plaster and polyurethane, but I
can't find anything that looks similar, especially the corners.

charles

You are probably working with somewhat larger molding, but I've repaired
large antique picture frames, 3'x5', with 4" wide molding, corners and
straight sections, by making a molds of a good section, casting the piece in
plaster and gluing it in. There are flexible latex and vinyl compounds
available from art supply stores for this use. Matching the finish was the
hard part.

More details-there is panel molding on the wall in a lobby. There is also
a section of wall that doesn't have the panel molding on it, and the
owners want to add some. It doesn't have to be the same, since I'll never
be able to find a match, but should be similar. Googling led me to
suppliers (one in Ireland!, when I spelled it "mouldilng"), and some might
be ok, but I'm looking still for a closer match.

Do you think it would be possible to make a latex mold of the (E) wall
molding, on the wall, and use that to cast new pieces?

Thanks for the suggestions.

charles