Summary: Pull the first side and put in the second staple on that side. Learn how to stretch a canvas for painting from a professional artist in this free video.
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"Okay. So now we want to add another staple. It doesn't matter what side we go from because each side has a staple. So let's just pick this one that's closest to us here. Okay. So let's go to this side of the staple. You're going to want to pretty much even them out around an inch to half an inch apart adding staples. So we'll just go right here. We're going to pull really tight. Okay. Bring it around. Okay so that's about the distance you want to get. Alrighty. We're going to add another staple over here on this side and that will take care of this side of the canvas. The stretcher. You can see that these were pulled at the same rate of tightness because of the, this arch here is the same and that's good. You want it to look like that."