Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame. It is also used in such fashion objects as handbags and shoes.

Contents

• 1 Etymology
• 2 Physical characteristics
• 3 Canvas for painting
• 4 Canvas as a compound agent
• 5 Splined canvas, stretched canvas and canvas boards
• 6 Canvas used for canoes
• 7 Canvas used for trampolines
• 8 Non-traditional uses for stretched canvas
• 9 Canvas types
• 10 Canvas products
• 11 References
• 12 See also

Noun

canvas (plural (UK) canvasses, (US) canvases)

1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.

     The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \

2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
3. A basis for creative work.

   The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.

4. (nautical) sails in general
5. A tent.

   He spent the night under canvas.

6. Alternative spelling of canvass.

Verb

canvas (third-person singular simple present canvases, present participle canvasing, simple past and past participle canvased)

1. To cover an area or object with canvas.
2. Alternative spelling of canvass.

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