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Hi Sarah I have just come across your cry for help. I have had to deal with this self same problem that was knocked off a wall, although my tear was right across the middle! The first thing to establish is how clean is the tear (I assume you are talking about canvas?)and can you press the two sides together without any appreciable gap? If so we are in business. The method I will describe to you is perfectly adequate unless you are going to sell the painting when more involved methods would be required - such as applying patches to the rear or re-lining. You will need some melted beeswax mixed with PVA adhesive and some medical micropore adhesive tape. Step one is to first lay the painting face down on a clean flat surface; then bring the 2 sides of the tear together carefully trimming any loose fibres.Then carefully apply strips of the micropore to the back of the canvas at the point of the tear, first across the line of the tear and then at right angles to the first strips. Step two is to then turn the painting over and carefully apply the wax PVA mix to the line of the tear. you will probably have to repeat this several times, waiting until each layer has hardened before applying subsequent layers, as in drying out there will be some "sinkage". You need to continue doing this until the gap left by the tear has been levelled to that of the canvas surface. Step 3, when these additions of wax have dried, is to re-paint the area affected to bring it into line wit
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