I’ve been using the Jacquard Belgian Linen (and silks,) coated for inkjet for about 17 years now. It has been one of my favorite mediums. However it is very vulnerable to flaking of the coating and it is does not have a full photo gamut or resolution as typical quality coated inkjet canvas like Breathing Color Lyve. But it has a totally different soft image structure that is tactile and beautiful. It looks expensive, which it is.
The dmax isn’t bad at all and the sharpness is fine for such as surface, but like I said, much more vulnerable to peeling off when a lot of ink is laid down. It is good for making scrolls that hang down from a dowel or bamboo rod. I always spray them with a Hahnemuhle uv coat. They are easy to roll up and transport in a tube and don’t require steaming or ironing to get wrinkles out like silk often does. Jacquard makes the inkjet fabrics for many of these smaller companies.
However I sense this Breathing Color linen product is much more like real artists canvas linen and probably a lot more durable and richer in gamut and sharper. Looking forward to checking it out to find out.
Are you supposed to use their varnish on it?
Thanks for posting,
John
The texture looked very interesting, though, to the point where I am tempted to import a roll just to see what its like. I've often lamented that paper companies offer a variety of matte paper surfaces from ultra smooth to very coarse watercolor but canvas surface variety has been neglected. I usually go for a very smooth canvas but some images cry out for a coarse one.
Maybe itsupplies could convince Hahnemuhle to import a batch for people to sample.