Canvas
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A short encyclopedia entry defining canvas as a strong coarse cloth of cotton, flax, or hemp. It covers its use on ships for sails, awnings and covers, including the numbered weight grades of flax sailcloth, and its use by artists as a stretched linen painting support, with standard portrait canvas sizes.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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