Denray Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 For this cloth interior wood wall covering found in them 100 yr old houses? Click to Enlarge 47.11 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Fabry Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 Canvas. Are the ceilings stretched canvas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denray Posted March 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 Stretched like this? Click to Enlarge 21.71 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Fabry Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 That's fairly ugly. Usually the canvas is stretched to a drum-like tautness and the attaching mechanisms are concealed by crown moldings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 That looks like one of those canvas jobs from the 80's, when various companies were trying to bring canvas back as a way to "hide" cracks in the plaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericwlewis Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 That's fairly ugly. that made me chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 It's called canvassing. It was a fairly common practice to inexpensively hide previous patching, deteriorating/flaking skim coat damage or damage from wallpaper removal. It was then usually painted or wallpapered over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denray Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Thanks for the quick replies all![] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 The stuff in the first pic looks fairly coarse, made me think 'burlap'. Canvas is more refined, no doubt. I had a burlap wall in the 70's. The burlap hid the paper-backed insulation. [:-thumbd] Another word for burlap is 'potato sack'. Old guys remember when spuds came in sacks, and we'd save the sacks for all kinds of things, like the good old sack race. Another word for burlap is 'gunny sack'. Have no idea what a gunny is. Well I looked it up and gunny is the material, woven hemp or jute, comes from the Sanskrit word 'gon1'. FYI, if anybody is even slightly curious. Painted canvas makes a tight wall. Look at what it does on a canoe, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Saw it once out here in New England...tight as a drum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 In the rural parts of the Northwest - and probably in Denny's area - the interior walls and ceilings were covered with wood shiplap sheathing, a light muslin was stapled over that, and wallpaper was applied over the muslin. In areas where it wouldn't show - the insides of closets and some storage attics - they used newspaper instead of wallpaper. No one ever seemed to use plaster on the walls of houses out in the country around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 The original finish on the kitchen walls in my house was painted canvas from the top of the 4' wainscot to the 9' ceiling. I found bits of it, and the bedmold that hid the tacks at the top, under the lath and plaster. There were three horizontal planks under the canvas 30" wide, cut in a single pass on a circular blade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 The original finish on the kitchen walls in my house was painted canvas from the top of the 4' wainscot to the 9' ceiling. I found bits of it, and the bedmold that hid the tacks at the top, under the lath and plaster. There were three horizontal planks under the canvas 30" wide, cut in a single pass on a circular blade. Yes a 30" plank is a wonderful thing to see. Trees were big, and so were the saws that sawed them. The last sawmill for old growth logs shut down here not too long ago. For the really big stuff they had a band saw that would quarter them right in the lake. Then the quarter sawn sections went up to the big circular saw. Muslin, that could be the material in the closet pic. Thanks, Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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