  We study framizations of algebras through the idea of Schur--Weyl duality. We
provide a general setting in which framizations of algebras such as the
Yokonuma--Hecke algebra naturally appear and we obtain this way a Schur--Weyl
duality for many examples of these algebras which were introduced in the study
of knots and links. We thereby provide an interpretation of these algebras from
the point of view of representations of quantum groups. In this approach the
usual braid groups is replaced by the framed braid groups. This gives a natural
procedure to construct framizations of algebras and we discuss in particular a
new framized version of the Birman--Murakami--Wenzl algebra. The general
setting is also extended to encompass the situation where the usual braid group
is replaced by the so-called tied braids algebra, and this allows to collect in
our approach even more examples of algebras introduced in the knots and links
setting.
