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 for making professional-quality stretcher frames that remain straight and true even in very large sizes and for doing so with quick turnaround times, allowing you to get started at what you do best! We produce 8 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. 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 five different profiles and in lengths from 6″ to 84″. 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 panels – tell us your vision and we can help make it happen!
Affordable, easy to assemble, and available in six different finishes, 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.
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 frames you have ever worked with! Choose the Framed Stretcher for prints on canvas or existing paintings or Pre-Stretched Canvases for artists & hobbyists.
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 paintings...
July 17, 2018 — Once you’ve acquired a fantastic piece of art, you need a frame to do it justice. Floater frames are our most popular option, given their affordability and visually appealing design. They don’t add a great deal of weight or bulk, and provide a clean profile that really helps your paintings or photo prints on canvas pop. Floater frames are...
July 10, 2018 — Ohio artist Tim Lancaster wrote in to share his experience with our heavy duty stretcher bars, as well as the results of his framers stress-testing an 85″ bar. He shared this excellent piece of work on a 60 x 60″ UCSArt.com canvas stretcher, as well. “I’m writing to say a quick thank you to all involved with the...
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