Professional-Grade Canvas Framing Solutions — Factory-Direct from Gowin Canvas
At Gowin Canvas, we proudly manufacture and supply premium-quality pine wood canvas stretcher bars and cross braces for professional use across the art, framing, and canvas printing industries. With full in-house control over every stage of production, we provide dependable products directly from our factory to your business — ensuring top-tier quality, consistency, and performance.
Whether you’re a high-output print shop, a custom framing business, or a fine art studio, our stretcher bars are engineered to deliver the strength, accuracy, and reliability your workflow demands.
What Are Canvas Stretcher Bars?
Canvas stretcher bars are the wooden frame components over which canvas prints or paintings are stretched. Once assembled into a rectangular frame (a “stretcher”), the canvas is pulled taut and stapled or pinned to the edges. This process creates a clean, tight, and tensioned canvas surface suitable for display, framing, or gallery presentation.
While traditionally used by painters for hand-stretched canvas, today’s stretcher bars are also essential in high-volume digital print environments. Their structural integrity directly impacts the longevity and appearance of the final canvas product.
Why Material Matters: Kiln-Dried Pine Wood
The quality of your stretcher bar starts with the wood. We use kiln-dried pine, chosen for its lightweight structure, resistance to warping, and smooth, professional finish.
Advantages of Our Pine Wood:
- Kiln drying removes excess moisture, ensuring dimensional stability
- Lightweight yet strong for large formats and easy shipping
- Sourced from renewable forests — eco-conscious and sustainable
- Smooth-sanded finish ensures no splinters, tears, or uneven surfaces
Each bar is precision-milled, inspected, and finished to exacting standards, giving you a consistent, reliable product across every shipment.
Product Specifications
- Wood Species: Kiln-dried pine
- Available Thicknesses: 16mm, 18mm, 19mm, 20mm, 25mm, 38mm, 55mm
- Edge Options: Flat or beveled (to prevent ghosting on printed canvases)
- Construction: Finger-jointed for strength and alignment
- Surface: Smooth-sanded finish, no additional sanding required
- Bracing Options: Cross braces available for larger frames
- Packaging: Bulk, shrink-wrap, or custom packaging per request
Need something specific? We accommodate custom lengths, widths, profiles, and private-label options.
Cross Braces: Essential for Stability
Larger canvas sizes need extra reinforcement to prevent bowing or flexing under tension. Cross braces support the frame’s structural integrity — especially over time.
We Offer:
- Standard cross braces: Installed using notched slots
- Keyable cross braces: Adjustable wedges allow post-assembly tension adjustments
- Integrated cross brace systems: Seamless, built-in reinforcement
Cross braces reduce sagging, protect against shape deformation, and ensure the canvas remains flat and professional-looking — even years after production.
Designed for Professional Applications
Gowin Canvas stretcher bars and braces are trusted in a variety of professional environments:
- High-volume canvas print shops
- Art reproduction studios
- Framing supply distributors
- Photography labs
- Online print-on-demand stores
- Museums and gallery suppliers
- OEM or private-label canvas producers
Whether you’re producing 500 or 50,000 frames a month, our factory can meet your scale.
Fast, Tool-Free Assembly
Each bar is pre-cut with interlocking finger joints. No glue or screws required — just align and snap together for a square, solid frame.
Optional features like:
- Pre-notched cross brace slots
- Beveled edges
- Custom labeling
… help optimize your production line, reduce manual errors, and improve packaging workflow.
Watch our how-to tutorials: youtube.com/@Gabriela_Gowin
Customization Services
Your business is unique. So are our solutions.
We offer:
- Non-standard lengths, widths, and profiles
- Custom beveling and edge shaping
- Bracing layout based on your frame dimensions
- OEM/private-label branding on packaging and product
- Kits packaged per unit, in sets, or bulk
Let us help you design a stretcher system that aligns with your market and production needs.
Quality Control That Delivers
We manage our entire manufacturing process, including:
- Sourcing & drying of raw pine wood
- Finger-jointing and cutting
- CNC shaping and sanding
- Manual inspection and export prep
Our quality control team checks every batch for:
- Dimensional consistency
- Smooth edges and corners
- Secure joints
- Proper packaging and labeling
Global Shipping & Order Support
We ship worldwide with export-ready packaging and documentation. Whether you prefer air freight or sea cargo, we handle the logistics for safe, efficient delivery.
- MOQ: Flexible — based on region and item
- Lead Time: 30–45 days standard (rush options available)
- Labeling: Custom brand, barcode, or bilingual
- Support: Export documentation, customs declarations, packing lists