Canvas Edging

Gallery Canvas

• A gallery canvas is one canvas edging option. With a gallery canvas piece, the image is printed to fit the size of the frame, leaving the edges or the canvas white or whatever color the piece of unpainted canvas is. The edges can then be painted any desired color or left white.

Gallery Wrap

• A gallery wrap canvas option involves stretching an artist’s canvas to wrap the canvas around the edges. It is secured around the back of the wood frame without any visible staples or nails holding the canvas to the stretcher bar or strainer bars. With this edging option, the image is printed larger than the size of the frame, allowing it to wrap around the edges and leaving no visible white canvas. The wooden frame is typically 1.25 inches in thickness although other sizes, such as 1.5 inches or 1 inch, also exist.

Gallery Wrap Options

• A gallery wrap canvas usually comes with multiple edging options, which include either a reflection or continuation of the main image. A reflection mirrors the image around the edges of the main canvas image whereas a continuation prints the edges of the main image on the actual canvas edges. Edging options include standard edging, block color edging, mirror image edging, extended or super-extended edging and pixel stretch edging. All gallery wrap edging options allow artists to make a canvas print even more creative.

Gallery Border

• A gallery border canvas edging option places the image inset within the white frame. This arrangement creates a white border and visible white edging on the print so it appears almost like a framed image on the canvas. This type of canvas edging gives the canvas a clean, fresh and modern look.