Creative Mark prides itself on creating professional quality products at an excellent value. Paramount profides you with a professional canvas in every aspect. The canvas is a heavyweight 11oz. double primed 00% pure unbleached cotton. The primer is acid-free. The surface has just the right tooth to accept paint and allow for building up texture and vigorous working. The canvas is stretched onto the back of the canvas to allow you to re-stretch at any time without sacrificing your finished painting. The solid wood stretcher bars have a full outer lip and the stretching is tight to provide excellent "bounce back" at each stroke. This economical canvas considers the painter creating a great product for ainting in all media. Paramount canvas can take heavy textural build -up with less sagging than other canvases.