Do you need tough material like canvas tarpaulins? There is no substitute for our canvas tarpaulins! Canvas tarpaulins are essential for conditions which require protection against wind or absorption of paint. The grommet rings, material and stitching are hand made so you are assured high quality but the distance of grommets may vary approximately every 2 ft. around the perimeter. Our white canvas tarpaulins are great for all outdoor use as well as painter's tarpaulins and painting artwork. Brown canvas is great for blending in a natural environment as well as our green canvas tarpaulins. We specialize in canvas tarpaulins covers, so when you need very heavy duty canvas tarpaulins and the canvas needs to last a long time you can always think of our canvas tarpaulins.

We also have large canvas tarpaulins for industrial use. We stock the biggest canvas tarpaulins in the industry so if you need to cover that big job with canvas we can solve your problem.

We started out with all our tarpaulins made from canvas. The original tarpaulins or tarpaulin were canvas. The word tarpaulin originated as a compound of the words tar and palling, referring to a tarred canvas pall used to cover objects on ships. By association, sailors became known as tarpaulins and eventually tars. When used for a tarpaulins, the word hoochie (also hootchie, hootch, or hooch) comes from the Japanese uchi ("house"). Huts in various parts of rural Asia are known by this or similar names, and during the Korean and Vietnam Wars English-speaking soldiers came to use the word to refer to their own makeshift shelters, which often consisted of little more than a tarpaulins. Modern canvas is usually made of cotton. It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as twill, in the way it is woven.

Canvas has a very simple weave: the weft thread just goes over one warp thread and under the next. (The weft thread for twill goes over one and under two and each weft thread moves the pattern over one thread. The result is a diagonal pattern such as can be observed in the cloth use for blue jeans.) Canvas comes in two basic types: plain and Duck. The threads in Duck canvas are more tightly woven. Our canvas tarpaulins are duck canvas. Water resistance is possible with canvas tarpaulins if they are canvas tarpaulins oil base treated. The oil canvas tarpaulins help repel liquid. The oiled canvas helps fill in the cotton canvas threading. In the USA canvas is graded two ways: by weight (ounces per square yard) and by number. The numbers run in reverse of the weight; so, number 10 canvas is lighter than number 4. The more modern poly tarpaulin is more common these days but there are many applications that are only used for good old canvas tarpaulins.