iosif, there are some objective reasons why the county is a more reliable basis for painting. It is mechanically more durable, it is less susceptible to rotting, it is less hygroscopic. This is not the sheets, the fabric is stretched on a frame and then wetted, is primed. Linen drying stretched like a drum, cotton remains fairly hanging. If the primed canvas push behind finger, linen elastic back into place, and on cotton produced dent and damage to the soil. And writing brush difference in elasticity of linen and cotton canvas is very different. So I do not know any artist who would be at the free choice would prefer cotton.
Cotton for the painting came into vogue in the United States in the middle of last century, which is not a linen and cotton in bulk. T e paintings on cotton is not even a hundred years.
Our linen is made in Russia and Belarus, so the difference is not at times, and, conditionally, in the tens of percent, if we take the same manufacturer, for example, Tuyukan. However, there are China cotton or semilinear, that is, 50%linen, 50%cotton. In addition to cheap, they do have another attractive quality-they are lightweight enough to thin pieces of wood. If you go to exhibitions or send picture mail, the issue of weight is very important. So many artists choose China because of the weight.
Speaking of inexpensive products to, say, $ 500, why not write in Chinese cotton? If you talk about a solid product in several scroll thousand dollars, then we in the West write on flax is both quality and respect for the customer and saving as a percentage of the value of the picture is small.
The difference between linen and cotton occurs in extreme conditions, humidity changes, mechanical damage, hauling, storage in a shot from the subframe condition. If the picture is stored in the original stretch at a constant temperature and humidity, and not in an unheated barn, nothing they will not. But I saw in San Francisco turnovers cotton canvas 1940-all of them in spots, or mold, or moisture .. do not know .. One artist told me that when you try to waist China cotton canvas ripped like paper, but that Chinese branded canvases like GAMMA overtighten without problems.
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