Friday, September 17, 2010

About the various options in Stretcher strips

When considering stretcher bars for your canvas, being an artist you got to keep many aspects in mind. Apart from seeking robustness in the frame, it must also offer to stick within your budget and remain easily affordable to you. So, it is only worthwhile to undertake a good research online and find a vendor that provides quality combined with variety to help you keep cost under control. Keeping it in mind, you may come across vendor sites offering you range of thicknesses and depth in frames to suit your need and budget. Right from stretcher strips to super heavy duty stretcher bars, the site could offer you up to five varieties in stretcher bars.

Standard bars

At the bottom of the hierarchy, you would find the cheapest and the standard medium duty stretcher bars, also known as stretcher strips.

Light duty bars

Stylish and suitable for small paintings/ Giclee prints that either would not need a thicker bar or would be framed anyways. These stretcher bars are made up of good quality, kiln dried wood.


Medium/ heavy duty bars

These are any artist’s dream-come-true bars as they combine thick frame profile to add supposed value to one’s work of art, with cost effective pricing. Not as robust as a heavy duty or super heavy duty, the braces in the frame might need reinforcement sooner than otherwise.

Heavy duty stretcher bars

Though both heavy duty and super heavy duty bars offer outstanding quality, heavy duty bars extend affordability in company with durability.






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