How a Mia Framemaker Recreated a Lost 17th-Century Technique

Kurt Nordwall, a former framing technician at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, set out to recreate 17th-century Dutch ripple moldings by studying historic frames in Mia’s collection, researching old diagrams, and building his own machine. Go behind the scenes at Mia to see how close looking, experimentation, and hands-on making can bring a historic art form back to life.