Handmade in our Somerset workshop to the highest museum standards.
Our stretchers provide the perfect foundation for your artwork — built for liners, restorers and museums, using joinery-grade timber and traditional joinery techniques perfected over two decades.
A well-made stretcher is essential to the stability and longevity of a painting. We have made bespoke stretchers for over twenty years in our studio workshop, perfecting our designs from old traditional stretchers and the stretcher makers who came before us.
Each stretcher is carefully crafted to suit the artwork — for liners, restorers and museums — using joinery-grade timber and hardwood pegs (keys) made from chestnut or ash.
Carefully selected, seasoned hardwoods for maximum stability.
Handmade in-house using time-honoured techniques and expert joinery.
Built to precise dimensions to ensure a perfect fit every time.
Made to conservation standards for lasting structural integrity.
Tailored to your artwork, specifications and requirements.
Responsibly sourced materials and minimal waste production.
Bespoke stretchers for everyday paintings and new canvas works.
Stronger profiles and additional bracing for larger, heavier or folding canvases.
Made to measure for oval, hexagonal and other bespoke shaped canvases.
New peg sets and accurate replacements for damaged or original stretchers.
Please contact us with the exact dimensions, together with any other particular requests. We take up to 7–10 days to make from confirmation of the order.
For larger or more complicated stretchers you might require a construction plan first, or for ovals, a template might be sent from the client.
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