Framing canvas
Often, a canvas on a stretcher bar looks good just as it is, and lots of people choose to hang their canvas on the wall just like that. But if you want to make your canvas picture even more “frame-like”, then you can choose to frame the whole thing - stretcher bar and all.
Because a canvas picture on a stretcher bar is often several centimetres thick, you need to think carefully about your choice of frame, as not all frames have the rabbet depth (inner depth) necessary for accommodating the thickness of a canvas picture.
One alternative is to buy a canvas frame, also called a shadow box frame, which is a picture frame made specially for canvas pictures. In our selection, we have several different canvas frames of varying depth, such as the Västerås, which has an inner depth of 27 mm, or Kungsgården, which has an inner depth of 38 mm. These canvas frames are made to order in our own frame workshop. We always add an extra centimetre to your given measurements, to create a gap between the canvas and the frame.
Picture frames for traditional style canvas
If you have a beautiful oil or acrylic painting, with an old-fashioned or classic image, then maybe you won’t feel that it works with the modern style of most canvas frames – happily, there are other options! Our Högbo picture frame is a classic picture frame with a beautifully patterned edge. It comes in the colours gold, silver, white and black. It also has an inner depth of 27 mm, which means that it can accommodate a 20-27 mm thick canvas picture. Similarly our beautiful golden Örbyhus a rabbet depth of 27 mm. NB! Bear in mind that canvas pictures should be framed without glass, to ensure that the canvas can breathe.
If you’re willing to put in a tad more work to frame your canvas pictures, then our selection also contains several traditional picture frames with which you use mounting plates to ensure that your canvas picture and picture frame sit together securely. In most cases, these picture frames don’t have the right rabbet depth needed to accommodate a canvas picture – instead, they are sufficiently wide such that the width of the frame hides the fact that the canvas sticks out at the back. With some of these pictures frames, you can use a brad nail to nail the canvas picture’s folding frame in place, by putting the nail through the folding frame at an angle so that it goes through both frames.
Here are some examples of this kind of picture frame in traditional styles: