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No experience but believe the most difficult part will be the (wooden) frame. A stiff frame that size will ask for decent wood and some woodworking skills, no? I bought a 100 x 80 cm (350 g/sq m) cotton canvas and it costed 45 €.
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I used to make all my own canvasses back when I painted (so college/uni days). It's fairly straightforward to be honest. If you're making a canvas that size, you'll want some reinforcement in there (just a couple of horizontal bits in to support the longest sides). Then it's just a case of getting the canvas nice and evenly taught across the whole area.
Have you ever done it before? Might be worth trying some smaller canvasses first before tackling a large one. I have done some that size and don't remember it being much harder, but this was about 20 years ago now...
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Does anyone have any experience of stretching their own canvas?
I want to do a big canvas for our bedroom. 1mx2m maybe 2.5.
A 6m x1.5 roll is £49. Which seems like good value to me. Plus the stretcher. I’ve got a stamped gun. And some stretching bars already.