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2. Canvas - Wikipedia

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   The numbers run in reverse of the weight so a number 10 canvas is lighter than number 4. The word "canvas" is derived from the 13th century Anglo-French canevaz and the Old French canevas. Both may be derivatives of the Vulgar Latin cannapaceus for "made of hemp", originating from the Greek κάνναβις . [2] [3]

3. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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   Screen printing may be adapted to printing on a variety of materials, from paper, cloth, and canvas to rubber, glass, and metal. Artists have used the technique to print on bottles, on slabs of granite, directly onto walls, and to reproduce images on textiles which would distort under pressure from printing presses.

4. Canvas print - Wikipedia

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   A canvas print is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is often stretched, or gallery-wrapped, onto a frame and displayed. Canvas prints are used as the final output in an art piece, or as a way to reproduce other forms of art.

5. Intaglio (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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   After the decline of the main relief technique of woodcut around 1550, the intaglio techniques dominated both artistic printmaking as well as most types of illustration and popular prints until the mid 19th century. [5] The word "intaglio" describes prints created from plates where the ink-bearing regions are recessed beneath the plate's ...

6. Giclée - Wikipedia

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   The word giclée was adopted by Jack Duganne around 1990. He was a printmaker working at Nash Editions.He wanted a name for the new type of prints they were producing on a modified Iris printer, a large-format, high-resolution industrial prepress proofing inkjet printer on which the paper receiving the ink is attached to a rotating drum.

7. Toile - Wikipedia

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   The French "Toile de Jouy" simply means "cloth from Jouy" in English and describes a type of fabric printing. [4] [5] "Toile de Jouy", sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which is a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or ...