In lieu of being ecologically aware, I bought bedsheets from the local sally's to replace commercially sourced canvas.
Some notes:
1) don't gesso a duvet cover- it will eventually produce air pockets and you will have to restretch it.
2) bedsheets are very thin- they rip easily, meaning you cannot stretch them as tightly as cotton canvas.
3) this leads to a sagging sheet.
4) you may have to repeat unstretching the under-gessoed sheet, stapling it onto the wall, and then when your painting is ready, stretching it over the frame again
5) gesso well the more the merrier! I have personally found that the thin bedsheets require a lot more care and priming it well is pertinent if you want your paintings to be intact and not seeping through the sheets.
6) Prior to stretching the duvet over the frame, I tried inserting the frame into the duvet sheets so that the painting was double sided. The duvet was too large, so I may have to sew the duvet in correct measurement to the frame in the future ( if I want to pursue this idea of duality)
7) I ended up splitting the duvet in two, stapling one sheet over the frame, gessoing it. It is still to loose because its fragility meant I couldn't stretch it as tightly as I would normally.
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