Claessens Oil Primed Linen Rolls - Fine Textures

Claessens Oil Primed Linen Rolls Feature Meticulous Craftsmanship for Techniques needing a smooth surface!

Claessens Linen Rolls provide artists with optimal professional quality in painting surfaces and craftsmanship. Each specific primed linen type is passed through its own set of manufacturing steps and quality control, resulting in premium painting surfaces Claessens is renowned for. After receiving the raw linens, quality control carefully inspects the entire surface for weaving faults. Abnormally thick threads are scrupulously removed. Next, two layers of synthetic adhesive are applied. Each layer is dried on the canvas in a warm-air oven.

For oil primed canvases, zinc white is used as the first coat, bound with linseed oil; carefully applied to the glued linen with trowel-like knives. Then the canvas is sanded and a layer with a titanium white base is applied in the same fashion, then placed in a drying room for 3 days to air dry naturally. Double primed canvases undergo the same process again, as do additional primings. After the final coating is applied, the canvas is moved back to the drying room for 10 days.

The finished canvases are then again carefully inspected one last time before they are place on rolls and stocked in the warehouse. There, the rolls are put into boxes or tubes for shipping. These stringent, painstaking steps create a archival, exceptional linen canvas worthy of your finest masterpiece!

Single Oil Primed Linen Roll #12 - Single OP #12 Claessens Linen features a moderately fine texture and a single layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, and is popular with portrait and realist artists who enjoy the fine tooth it offers. Warp 20cm/16cm weft; weighs 11.36oz.

Double Oil Primed Linen Roll #12 - Double OP #12 Claessens Linen features a moderately fine texture and a double layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, and is popular with portrait and realist artists who enjoy the fine tooth it offers. Warp 20cm/16cm weft; weighs 12.59oz.

Double Oil Primed Linen Roll #9 - Double OP #9 Claessens Linen features a fine texture and a double layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, and is popular with portrait, realist artists, and general painters who enjoy the more moderately fine tooth it offers. Warp 11cm/14cm weft; weighs 11.50oz.

Single Oil Primed Linen Roll #13 - Single OP #13 Claessens Linen features a very fine texture and a single layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, but is the ideal choice for portrait, troupe l’oeil and realist artists who enjoy the very fine surface it offers. Warp 23cm/23cm weft; weighs 9.59oz.

Double Oil Primed Linen Roll #13 - Double OP #13 Claessens Linen features a very fine texture and a double layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, but is the ideal choice for portrait, troupe l’oeil and realist artists who enjoy the very fine surface it offers. Warp 23cm/23cm weft; weighs 10.50oz.

Quadruple Oil Primed Linen Roll #13 - Quadruple OP #13 Claessens Linen features a very fine texture and a quadruple layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It is the ideal choice for portrait, troupe l’oeil and realist artists who enjoy the very fine surface the quadruple priming and Very Fine weave offers. Warp 23cm/23cm weft; weighs 11.36oz.