[SML] Fwd: Muslin Flat Oddity

[Steven Hood]

Another way to test is the old costume trick of flame-test. If you take a 
lighter to it, and it shricks back at all like a synthetic rope would, then 
there's more than cotton in there. Cotton should go to black ash right quick.
Steven R Hood
310.756.3555



On February 1, 2016 3:45:01 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft 
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Got bit by the gmail app; replied to Steven instead of the group. Oops.
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> From: *Rob Graham* <photonguide at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2016
> Subject: Muslin Flat Oddity
> To: Steven Hood <shood_td at yahoo.com>
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>
> That's something I hadn't thought of.  The  website claims 100%
> cotton.  I'm going to check the actual manufacturer's label.
>
> Rob G.
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Steven Hood <shood_td at yahoo.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> On February 1, 2016 2:28:06 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft
>> <stagecraft at theatrical.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
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>>> 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 <javascript:;>
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