Our Best Ever Stretcher Frames

Canvas Republic have always strived to make the highest possible quality canvas prints. This means that we have to try out new materials all the time, ensuring that we're offering best product we possibly can.

We recently sourced a new manufacturer of pine stretcher bars in Europe, who are making the best frames we have seen in a long time. The frames are cut with amazing precision, have a characteristically smooth pine finish and are really heavyweight.

We took delivery of our first batch last week, and we're absolutely delighted to setting a new gold standard in quality with our canvas wall art.

Keeping Your Canvas Art Tight

You may well wonder what those strange little wedges are that come with your canvas art frame...

These wedges are to tension the print and we tap them into the stretcher bar frames in order to fully tighten your canvas print before shipping. The wedges work by pushing apart the unfixed corners of the frame slightly, making the canvas taut.

As with most woven materials, canvas won't stay this tight indefinitely and may relax a little over time. You may find after a year or so that your canvas art needs to be retightened slightly. Therefore, when choosing your canvas art, beware of non-adjustable, DIY frames; you may end up with a relaxed print in the future!

Our frames are easily adjustable with the supplied wedges. For occaisional retightening, place your canvas print face down on a soft, flat surface such as a carpet. Then simply tap the ends of each wedge lightly with a small hammer. Be sure not to over-tighten; a few light taps will normally suffice. Voilà!

For more information on the high quality frames we use, please see the quality page for more details...

Highest Quality Stretcher Bars

Two months ago, we imported our own shipment of high quality stretcher bars. This gave us the option of selecting the best bars, as well as the flexibility of having a large stock and not having to rely on UK art suppliers.

The only downside was that it took five of us two hours to unload the shipping container! (Aching backs all round the next day...)



We have to say, after using them for several weeks now, they're absolutely great! The frames really are the best we've used and are truly excellent quality. They come precision machined and profiled with a really smooth finish.



We're looking forward to our replenishment shipment soon, although we might have to bribe someone else to unload them next time!