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2. The Best Canvas Pliers for Stretching Your Own Canvases - AOL

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   If you’re stretching canvas, you really, really should do so with a reliable pair of canvas pliers. Canvas that isn’t properly stretched can ruin the look of a painting; stretched paintings ...

3. Tightening key - Wikipedia

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   The back of a stretched canvas, with keys inserted at the corner, and additional keys off to the side. A tightening key is a small wedge or shim used in the construction of a canvas stretcher frame with expandable joints. The key is inserted into the slotted inside the stretcher bars at the mitered corners of the frame to prevent or adjust sagging.

4. Stretcher bar - Wikipedia

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   This allows the canvas to be re-tensioned later, as it has a natural tendency to stretch and sag over time. In contrast, strainer bars stretch canvas in a fixed (non-adjustable) way. The keys became popular in the 19th century. [2] A simpler form of stretcher employs butt joints to adhere the corners. The joint is pinned and glued into place ...

5. Pliers - Wikipedia

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   Diagonal pliers, also called side cutters, are a similarly shaped tool used for cutting rather than holding, having a pair of stout blades, similar to scissors except that the cutting surfaces meet parallel to each other rather than overlapping. Ordinary (holding/squeezing) pliers may incorporate a small pair of such cutting blades.

6. Canvas - Wikipedia

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   Canvas on stretcher bar. Canvas has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. It was used from the 14th century in Italy, but only rarely. One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

7. J.H. Williams Tool Group - Wikipedia

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   The company was one of the first to offer mass-produced drop-forged hand tools. [3] A second factory was opened in Buffalo, New York in 1914, now the site of General Motors' Tonawanda Engine plant. [4] The company was acquired by Snap-on in 1993. [citation needed] In 2011 it was officially renamed Snap-on Industrial Brands. [5]