Canvas Gallery Wrap - About the Canvas - About the Varnish

Canvas Gallery Wrap - defined -

Gallery wrapped canvases are intended to be hung unframed. The canvas is professionally stretched and wrapped around a wood frame for a continuous image on all sides of the piece.

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"A gallery-wrap canvas is a canvas that doesn't have any visible staples or nails holding the fabric to the wooden stretcher. Quite often with a gallery-wrap canvas, the edges are painted and the painting hung unframed." - More from About.com In the case of Westlake fine art photography the photo edges are copied and carried around the sides of the print

About the Canvas

The canvas that I use for printing my own giclee fine art images & YOUR images too, is Brilliance Chromata White Inkjet Canvas from Breathing Color. From the Breathing Color Website:
"Brilliance™ Chromata White Canvas is a textured 20.5 mil Bright White, consistent Poly Cotton Blend Canvas using an acid-free, neutral pH coating...
"Chromata White" gives the end-user the most stable platform on which to print photographs and fine art works
Brilliance™ Chromata White Canvas in the most archival canvas in the world. In addition, this major breakthrough results in a canvas that is whiter than traditional canvas manufactured with OBA's. Brilliance™ Chromata White utilizes our most advanced inkjet canvas coating technology that is a far industry leader in Dmax and Color Gamut. It was designed to deliver roll to roll CONSISTENCY from one production to the next."
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About the Varnish

The varnish that I use to coat my canvas images and your images too is Glamour™ II Veneer, from Breathing Color. From the Breathing Color Website:
"Glamour II is a museum-grade liquid coating.
It can also be used as a mounting adhesive.The water resistant surface works exceptionally well with Glamour™ II Veneer, our proprietary water-based top coat coating designed specifically for our line of Brilliance Canvas... If coated with Glamour II, this canvas will not crack even under extremely rigorous stretching conditions."
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