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can anyone help with restretching canvas?

  • 02-04-2011 9:51pm
    #1
    weebunz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello!
    I made stretchers for landscape shaped paintings that I want to do; covered them with canvas; sized them with rabbit skin glue, as you do.
    However they dried too quickly (hung above a radiator) and as a result, the canvas has buckled.
    I've removed the canvas with a view to restretching, but was wondering the best way to go about it (this has never happened before!)

    Should I try to soften the old size by soaking the canvas in hot water?
    Or should I just restretch, stiff as they are?

    Many thanks for any advice or insight.


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  • #2
    breadandjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭breadandjam


    I would soak the canvas. Restretch it while damp and let it dry naturally flat on the floor (Canvas side up of course) Maybe weigh down the stretcher. See how they are when dry and then maybe add another thin coat of size


  • #3
    weebunz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭weebunz


    Thanks for your reply.
    I soaked the canvas in a kettle full of boiling water, for just a few minutes, and was surprised that the size completely dissolved leaving the canvas clean & flexible.
    Somehow I thought it would be more durable!
    Dried it on the line: ready to go.
    I'm wondering if it;s worth investing in a pair of canvas plyers.
    Usualy I stretch it by hand.


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