canvas

     

Canvas is an extremely heavy-uty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used as a painting surface, typically stretched, and on fashion handbags and shoes.

Trivia about canvas

  • It's from the Latin for "hemp" because it was often made of hemp; add a letter & it means to take a survey
  • It can mean the closely woven durable cloth on which oil paintings are made or refer to the painting itself
  • You may execute your oil painting on a wooden panel or on one of these, a primed, heavy fabric
  • This painting surface may be linen or cotton & is placed on a frame called a stretcher
  • The floor of a boxing ring

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