Thursday, November 25, 2010

Know Your Canvas Stretching Bars

The relationship between a canvas painting/ canvas print and canvas stretching frames hardly needs an introduction. Simply put, a painting needs good quality canvas stretcher bars to bloom to its full potential, both in terms of aesthetics and longevity. Therefore, it is necessary that you know your options in canvas stretching bars right and make an informed decision always.

Good quality stretcher frames are usually achieved using long sections of wood united together using finger splicing technique. The finger splicing method gives dimensional strength to the entire wooden frame and makes it less vulnerable to damage due to bending or twisting. This, in turn, renders your canvas painting/ print more stable and long lasting.

When you purchase a DIY canvas stretching bars, you actually purchase pre-cut and already spliced long wood bars for convenient assembly. The frames come in wide variety from light duty stretcher strips to medium duty and heavy duty bars. These types in frames represent varying bars sizes and weight specifications used in each.

Artistes tend to experiment with the façade of their canvas renderings by innovatively matching them up with the available variety albeit keeping in mind the suitability of each type with the size of their canvas print/ canvas painting. For instance, a small painting may be built with a heavy duty frame for the additional dimension and hence can be made to stand out on the wall. However, vice versa is not possible as large painting necessarily require heavy duty frames only. Stretching a large painting over light duty stretcher bars may injure them over time due to warping.




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