Unorthodox method for stretching canvas

This article will not be interesting to everyone. I had a hard time convincing my wife that it was interesting. The traditional method for stretching canvases over a stretcher or strainer is to stretch from the center out to the corners. It’s logical, it’s traditional, it’s the way things are done.

James Bernstein is an art conservator and otherwise spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about how paint behaves on canvas and how canvas behaves on a strainer/stretcher.

This article he wrote is pretty revolutionary to me and I may start stretching my canvases this way. You can find his article here: http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp17article1.php