LongLensPhotography
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I am thinking about potential exhibitions and obviously selling, selling selling.
I have done a fair amount of canvas for myself a few years back, so obviously my requirements were just a little lower than retail products.
Print and varnish side - I am OK with all that. Well up to A1-ish at least. The A0s which I may want is a different matter on A1 printer.
I used to buy pine stretcher bars from ebay, and perhaps half if not most of the long ones were a bit warped already out of the box. This was just barely tolerable for personal space but clearly not acceptable for retail.
So I need good quality well-dried wood mostly for 36x24" or A1 canvas prints. I really don't want any more than 20mm thickness because this takes away too much print. As I said I already want A0, not closer to A2.
Then the next idea is to frame some of them to create more luxury variant. So basically luxury frame. and canvas edge to edge. No matt. no glass, no bs. I..e. pretty much what you see in museum art galleries.
I wonder if you would still stretch the canvas on same bars and try and squeeze it into a frame, or would you instead use something like 5mm MDF for stretching, or even somehow stretch it into the frame itself.?
There is so much hassle and expense with "plain" inkjet paper prints and getting the mounted and framed that I just only sell them rolled in a tube and customers can go through all that with their framer as needed.
Thank you.
I have done a fair amount of canvas for myself a few years back, so obviously my requirements were just a little lower than retail products.
Print and varnish side - I am OK with all that. Well up to A1-ish at least. The A0s which I may want is a different matter on A1 printer.
I used to buy pine stretcher bars from ebay, and perhaps half if not most of the long ones were a bit warped already out of the box. This was just barely tolerable for personal space but clearly not acceptable for retail.
So I need good quality well-dried wood mostly for 36x24" or A1 canvas prints. I really don't want any more than 20mm thickness because this takes away too much print. As I said I already want A0, not closer to A2.
Then the next idea is to frame some of them to create more luxury variant. So basically luxury frame. and canvas edge to edge. No matt. no glass, no bs. I..e. pretty much what you see in museum art galleries.
I wonder if you would still stretch the canvas on same bars and try and squeeze it into a frame, or would you instead use something like 5mm MDF for stretching, or even somehow stretch it into the frame itself.?
There is so much hassle and expense with "plain" inkjet paper prints and getting the mounted and framed that I just only sell them rolled in a tube and customers can go through all that with their framer as needed.
Thank you.
