Choose Stretched Canvas for Perfect Results!

A stretcher bar is used by artists to construct a wooden stretcher to mount their canvases. To choose the perfect stretched canvas that meets your requirements at an affordable price, various factors should be considered.
Stretched canvas that are heavy, acid free, unbleached and ‘loom state’ or linen provides you with better quality.
Student grade stretched canvas is available for beginners or students. They provide them with less permanence than that provided by items labeled ‘artist quality’, ‘professional’, ‘gallery’ or ‘museum’. However, it can be used by the professionals too.

For beginning your journey in art, do not be afraid to use less expensive gear until you have found your way and are confident of using more artistic varieties.
At a beginning level costly stretched canvas might inhibit your freedom to express your creativity.
As a beginner you can purchase occasional higher end products to judge the difference for yourself.
To sell your works at high price or to label your works as archival you should prefer high quality, acid free and archival materials of stretched canvas
Stretcher frames are generally rectangular in shape although it is a possibility to produce them in various other shapes in accordance with the client's requirement.
Canvas stretching can be done with the help of pliers. A traditional 30" x 30" canvas stretch over an assembled stretcher bar usually takes 15-20 minutes. Using the Gallery Stretcher, you can stretch the same canvas in about 90 seconds.

Whether you are a digital photo lab, custom picture framer, or anyone who prints to canvas, canvas stretching will reduce your working time. Canvas stretcher makes canvas stretching a quick, smooth and user-friendly process.
Canvas stretcher frame creates an underpinning for canvases in such a manner that the canvas artworks are stretched flat.

The company offers you smaller stretcher frames for stretching the canvas. Stretcher bars should be chosen carefully keeping in mind the best quality of wood. If you use stretcher bar with warped wood it can create uneven pressure on the surface of the canvas and produce small tears and rips in the canvas. For a perfect stretched canvas make sure that the wood is hard and durable and the edges of the canvas stretcher are smooth and rounded. To prevent the edges of your canvas from damaging, visit www.picturemaster.co.uk