What frames will work for stretched canvas?
Not all frame profiles will completely accommodate a stretched canvas, and fewer still will fit heavy-duty stretchers. Utrecht carries several styles of framing that will accept standard stretchers. However, frames of sufficiently wide profile can be used for canvases even if the rabbet is shallow. Brackets shaped like a small stair step, sold at hardware stores for mounting mirrors, can be used to fix deep profile canvases to shallow frames, as long as the width of the frame hides the sides of the canvas.
