this video is brought to you by squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business in part one of stretching belief we saw some work that well stretched belief we saw excessive over painting inappropriate adhesives and a repair on a tear that was well disappointing you see all of the canvas fibers were cut clean to facilitate the fill-in which meant that this tear had no chance that's one way of doing it another way would be to close the tear historically weights have been sewn onto the canvas and gravity's been used to stretch canvas conservators have been developing and building contraptions some rickety and improvised and some really quite beautiful and professional to stretch closed a tear all of these devices use mechanical force to pull the canvas together in fact early in my career when faced with this problem i did the same but i used canvas and some clamps really nothing impressive but it achieved the results i wanted well now i think i can do better
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