Claessens Oil Primed Medium Texture Linen Rolls

Claessens Oil Primed Medium Textured Linen Rolls Feature Meticulous Craftsmanship - Their Most Popular All-Purpose Surfaces!

The Gold Standard for Professional Artists

Renowned among professional artists, Claessens Oil Primed Medium Texture Linen Rolls offer a superior painting surface that combines refined craftsmanship with exceptional versatility. Woven from the finest Belgian flax and meticulously prepared, this linen provides a well-balanced texture ideal for both precise detail work and expressive brushstrokes, making it an outstanding choice for a broad spectrum of traditional oil painting techniques. These linens we offer are Single (OP)and Double (DP) oil-primed using traditional methods, providing a responsive surface that enhances the luminosity and depth of oil paints. Claessens oil primed linen is made from 100% natural Belgian flax linen, a material long prized by professional artists for its strength, longevity, and superb painting surface!

Claessens Linen Rolls provide artists with optimal professional quality in painting surfaces and craftsmanship. Each specific primed linen type passed through its own set of manufacturing steps and quality control, resulting in the 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 an archival, exceptional linen canvas worthy of your finest masterpiece!

Common Artistic Uses of Claessens Oil Primed Medium Texture Linen Rolls

Artists use Claessens Oil Primed Medium Texture Linen Rolls for a wide range of professional oil painting applications: Portrait Painting, Landscape Painting, Figurative Work, Still Life, Museum-Quality and Commissioned Work and is ready for use with oil paints straight from the roll—no need for additional priming.

Available Styles of Oil Primed Medium Texture Linen Rolls (OP, DP)

Single Oil Primed Linen Roll #15 - OP Single OP #15 - Claessens Linen features a pronounced medium weave and a single layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, and is popular with landscape and general subject painters (slightly more weave texture than commercial cotton canvas). Warp 17cm/14.5cm weft; weighs 13.12oz.

Double Oil Primed Linen Roll #15 - DP Double OP #15 - Claessens Linen features a pronounced medium weave and a double layer of primer for oil and alkyd painting. It accepts most styles of painting, and is popular with landscape and general subject painters (slightly more weave texture than commercial cotton canvas). Warp 17cm/14.5cm weft; weighs 14.75oz.

Single Oil Primed Linen Roll #66 - OP Single OP #66 - A favorite of many famous artists world wide due to its even medium texture, a tight weave and strength. The world’s most popular linen for landscape painting. It has a 43.2 TPI warp and 36.8 TPI weft. Single primed weighs 13.48 oz. per square yard. 2 coat sizing.