[SML] Muslin Flat Oddity

[Steven Hood]

We had that problem once. We went back and looked carefully at the fiber 
content, and it turned out we were getting cotton/poly blend.

Steven R Hood
310.756.3555



On February 1, 2016 2:28:06 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft 
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Greetings Stagecraft Collective:
>
> We're having an interesting phenomenon happen with some muslin soft
> cover flats we're building.
>
> Admittedly - we're not buying muslin from Rose Brand, but off of
> another website, and its probably trying to save a few bucks that has
> in the end, undone us.
>
> Our flats are built using textbook correct application for every step,
> and we're prepping them exactly the way both I, and the scene designer
> have done multiple times through our respective careers.  The oddity
> is that after stretching and applying a glue & water size, our fabric
> is relaxing, rather than shrinking.  Neither of us has experienced
> this before - and I've built flats using fabric from this supplier
> (fabricdirect.com)  in the past without problem - albeit in a
> different geographic region.  Our glue densities have been between 2:1
> and 4:1 water-to-glue, and the same has happened when using a more
> traditional starch-based sizing medium as well.
>
> Have any of you members of the collective mind experiences similar to
> this in your adventures, and what did you do to solve it, if you did.
> And yes, we both feel a bit.....silly....over this issue.  Its
> happened with flats and drops we've sized over the last few years.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Graham
> photonguide at gmail.com
>
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