Straits Commercial Art Co. sells canvases from various part of the world. The top quality canvas is from Belgium, near the River Leie in the middle of the Flax district. Canvases produced by Claessens are top quality canvases that meets the needs of the professional artists. The artist's canvas begins with plant fibre, the plant is harvested and then steeped in water to make it easier to strip the woody bast. On the other hand, the cotton plants grows mainly in southern part of America. The cotton thread is spun from the woolly hairs around the cotton seeds.
Claessens treats its canvas according to traditional methods and produces top quality artist's canvas passed down from generation, keeping the core of the production process unchanged. There are primarily three types of coating . Each type of coating require different treatment at various stages. The three types of coating are oil prime sole for oil painting, absorbent canvases are intended for tempera and universal canvases are suitable for oil and acrylic.
Traditionally, artists' canvas is woven from 100 percent pure flax (linen), pure cotton, pure jute, mix of linen and cotton or linen and jute. Presently, new materials are available such as viscose fibre and polyester. Most of the canvas are available in 2.10 metres by 10 metres and other sizes are available upon request.
Talens stretched canvas are excellent in quality, stretched on studry pinewood frame at a competitive price. All stretched canvas are primed with universal primer and are ready to use. Talens stretched canvas are available in both cotton and linen , suitable for multi-purpose painting use - oil, acrylic and gouache.
Talens also produce attractively priced painting grounds, manufactured from heavy-quality cardboard covered with cotton canvas. The canvas panel are available in ten most frequently used size.
Fredrix canvases is widely available in jute, linen and polyflax, cotton. Fredrix was founded in 1868 and is the first in Amercia to manufacture artist's canvas for trade. Fredrix canvases are universally primed for oil, acrylic, or alkyd paints on industrial coating equipment.
Fredrix canvases are available in stretched and rolls. The stretched canvases are Fredrix creative edge where the canvas has a clean staple-free edge that allows the artist to paint on all four sides.
Fredrix gallery wrap canvas is stapled on back and can be painted on all four edges and hang with or without framing.
Fredrix medium texture (red label) is an economy canvas with medium weight acrylic titanmium primed use for oil or acrylic painting.
Fredrix canvas rolls are available in 53", 57", 60" by 6 yards. The most economical canvas in rolls are the polyflax cotton in 53" by 6 yds. Please feel free to enquire for other types of canvases.
Coloron canvas - stretched cotton canvas and canvas panel is widely used by amateur and beginners because of its economic pricing and wide selection of sizes . Coloron canvas is available pre stretched and in rolls of 60" width by 6 yards.
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