Fredrix
Fredrix® was founded in 1868 by E. H. Friedrich. Although, he spent much of his time on trains and coaches drumming up business, he was much more than a salesman. He was a businessman, a chemist, an inventor, an innovator and he was the first in America to manufacture artist canvas for the trade.
Although the art of manufacturing artist canvas has changed since the 1800’s, the product Fredrix make today is very similar to the canvas they made over 100 years ago.
The name was changed (Friedrichs to Fredrix), but their mission did not. Whether your choice is a machine primed canvas with universal acrylic gesso or a hand primed canvas with natural glue sizing and oil based ground, you can trust Fredrix® to provide you with the highest quality products in the widest possible variety available at the most affordable prices. Only Fredrix® offers you the greatest artist canvas values, whether it is your first painting or your highest commissioned artwork to date.
Fredrix® innovations such as; acid free canvas, synthetic fiber canvas, synthetic/natural blended canvas, tongue & groove stretcher strips, gallery style pre-stretched canvas and our newest innovation, Fredrix® PrintCanvas™, the canvas you can print on, are all the result of their efforts to help individual artists fulfill their unique artistic expressions.
Some examples of Fredrix® products and innovations are listed here:
Raw Canvas— Fredrix® shops all over the world to find the finest artist grade cottons, linens and blends, which are all woven to their rigid specifications.
Priming—All Fredrix® coatings are specially formulated to complement and enhance the unique inherent characteristics of the natural fibers as well as to protect the canvas fibers against acidic deterioration with a buffered neutral PH sizing. Most of their canvases are machine primed using state-of-the art industrial equipment, but they still prime many of our canvases the old fashioned way…by hand!
Stretcher Bars—All of the Fredrix® pre-stretched canvases are mounted on stretcher bars made from kiln dried SPF grade lumber and feature the unique Fredrix® interlocking tongue and groove design, which was first developed by their founder, E.H. Friedrich, in 1875.
Archival Quality—Your creative efforts deserve the very best. Only Fredrix® Artist Canvas can display this Archival Seal. It’s your guarantee that the masterpiece painted today will be a masterpiece for generations to come.
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