stretching-frame

I can see now that rude instrument, constructed with an old stretching-frame, a wooden clock, a home-made battery and the wire stretched many times around the walls of the studio.

Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

She was an embroideress, as I soon discovered from a small stretching-frame, containing some unfinished work, which she occasionally carried in her hand.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 Various 1836

I can see now that rude instrument, constructed with an old stretching-frame, a wooden clock, a home-made battery and the wire stretched many times around the walls of the studio.

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831

This last operation required that the body of the picture, disengaged from its _cartonnage_, or paper facing, and furnished with a new ground, should be exactly applied to the cloth done over with resinous substances, at the same time avoiding every thing that might hurt it by a too strong or unequal extension, and yet compelling every part of its vast extent to adhere to the cloth strained on the stretching-frame.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

My first instrument was made up of an old picture or canvas frame fastened to a table; the wheels of an old wooden clock moved by a weight to carry the paper forward; three wooden drums, upon one of which the paper was wound and passed over the other two; a wooden pendulum, suspended to the top piece of the picture or stretching-frame, and vibrating across the paper as it passes over the centre wooden drum;

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831

Let me make a stretching-frame of my fingers and square this end. "

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912