As both a manufacturer and an art supply store, we supply you with top quality stretcher frames, fine cotton and linen canvas, and the best of all other materials needed to support your artwork. When working with Upper Canada Stretchers, you will feel that satisfaction in every encounter with our stretcher bars for artists’ canvases and extended line of products.
Since 2001, Upper Canada Stretchers has become well known across North America for making professional-quality stretcher frames that remain straight and true even in very large sizes and for doing so with quick turn-around times, allowing you to get started at what you do best! We produce 11 unique, fully keyable profiles that have been developed to meet a wide range of needs. Click to see more information about each stretcher bar profile and to help you choose which one is best for your work. Here is some additional information to lead you through some of the considerations for choosing the right stretchers for your project, or you are always welcome to contact us for advice.
Upper Canada Stretchers also custom designs and fabricates keyable stretchers, non-keyable strainer frames, and even floating frames in limitless shapes and sizes using state-of-the-art CNC technology. This allows us to meet the unique design requirements of our many professional artists in Canada, the United States, and around the world. Check out our photo gallery to see examples of some of the interesting projects we've been involved in over the years! Then give us a call at 1-800-561-4944 or fill out our quote form to start the conversation about what we can do to assist with your project!
Available online in seven different profiles (wood/aluminum) and in lengths from 6″ to 96″. Order stock sizes to save up to 40% off custom sizing. Instant quotes on custom-sized frames! Volume discounts available.
Extra large, extra deep, aluminum, round/arched or custom-shaped canvases or art panels – tell us your vision and we can help make it happen!
Affordable, easy to assemble, and available in eight different finishes and three depths that will accommodate canvases and panels up to 2 inches deep, floater frames give your paintings or canvas prints that clean, finished look that you desire.
Professional quality Cotton Duck Canvas and Belgian Linen in widths ranging from 60″ to 144″. Primed & unprimed. Sold by the yard or up to 55-yard rolls. Discounted canvas roll ends also available.
You bought a beautiful painting on vacation or had a canvas print made of your favourite photograph. Now what do you do with it? Let us walk you through it!
Stretcher & floating frame in one - these are the fastest & easiest round/oval frames you have ever worked with! For prints on canvas or existing paintings, choose the Framed Stretcher, or choose Pre-Stretched Framed Canvases for artists & hobbyists. Stock and custom sizes now available! Square/Rectangular Impress Canvases are now on clearance.
March 29, 2020 — Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash As COVID-19 continues to turn lives upside down across the globe, we, at Upper Canada Stretchers, have been thinking about how we can support our community in the arts. With situations changing by the hour, it is confusing and unsettling, causing worry about the health and safety of our loved ones and ourselves, challenges with juggling family...
February 4, 2020 — (Erin Loree's The Swirl - photo by Alex Fischer) Being offered the chance to explore the vault at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery is something that many an art lover would jump at the chance for. When you are a young artist, that opportunity is even more enticing. That's exactly the invitation received in June 2019 by Toronto-based contemporary artist, Erin...
November 6, 2019 — Circular works of art, known in the art world as “tondos” (from the Italian word for ‘round’, “rotondo”), have appeared since Greek antiquity and became very fashionable in the Renaissance with examples painted by Botticelli, Michaelangelo, and Raphael. (Right: Madonna of the Magnificat, 1481, by Sandro Botticelli.) Round artwork also provides a modern appeal as it is far rarer to see...
We enjoy our work and take pleasure in making our stretcher business friendly and efficient for our customers. When you choose Upper Canada Stretchers you can count on:
