<div dir="ltr">Plus One for what Mr Hood suggests. We made that mistake ONCE and had to recover the flange with new goods and find alternative uses for the poly/cotton blend.<div>Steve</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Stephen E. Rees</div><div dir="ltr">RAC Addition Project Shepherd<div>State University of New York at Fredonia</div><div>716.673.3208 Office</div><div>716.680.1565 Mobile</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Steven Hood via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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On February 1, 2016 2:28:06 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Greetings Stagecraft Collective:<br>
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We're having an interesting phenomenon happen with some muslin soft<br>
cover flats we're building.<br>
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Admittedly - we're not buying muslin from Rose Brand, but off of<br>
another website, and its probably trying to save a few bucks that has<br>
in the end, undone us.<br>
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Our flats are built using textbook correct application for every step,<br>
and we're prepping them exactly the way both I, and the scene designer<br>
have done multiple times through our respective careers. The oddity<br>
is that after stretching and applying a glue & water size, our fabric<br>
is relaxing, rather than shrinking. Neither of us has experienced<br>
this before - and I've built flats using fabric from this supplier<br>
(<a href="http://fabricdirect.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">fabricdirect.com</a>) in the past without problem - albeit in a<br>
different geographic region. Our glue densities have been between 2:1<br>
and 4:1 water-to-glue, and the same has happened when using a more<br>
traditional starch-based sizing medium as well.<br>
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Have any of you members of the collective mind experiences similar to<br>
this in your adventures, and what did you do to solve it, if you did.<br>
And yes, we both feel a bit.....silly....over this issue. Its<br>
happened with flats and drops we've sized over the last few years.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Rob Graham<br>
<a href="mailto:photonguide@gmail.com" target="_blank">photonguide@gmail.com</a><br>
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