[Leica] Re: Mounting canvas prints

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

I forgot who asked about it but my wife, an accomplished painter and  
art museum curator, suggested another technique for mounting prints  
on canvas. Buy a pre-stretched and primed art canvas of the right  
size. She prefers Fredrix Gallery Wrap because the stretchers are  
stiffer than the usual pre-stretched canvas. Cut your print to fit  
the canvas without leaving an overlap. Coat the canvas with a vinyl  
based wallpaper paste available at any paint store or Home Depot for  
about $15 a gallon. Lay the print on the canvas and smooth out all  
wrinkles. The paste takes about 24 hours to set so the position of  
the print can be adjusted for several hours. When dry, frame it as  
you would a painting. It will look exactly the same as a  
traditionally mounted painting.

This technique is used by art conservators who want to remount old  
paintings where there is insufficient margin to staple the canvas to  
wooden stretchers. It is also used for old oils which would crack if  
stretched.

Larry Z