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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">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.<br>
Steven R Hood<br>
310.756.3555<br>
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February 1, 2016 3:45:01 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft
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<br>Got bit by the gmail app; replied to Steven instead of the group.
Oops. <div><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Rob
Graham</b> <<a
href="mailto:photonguide@gmail.com">photonguide@gmail.com</a>><br>Date:
Monday, February 1, 2016<br>Subject: Muslin Flat Oddity<br>To: Steven Hood
<<a
href="mailto:shood_td@yahoo.com">shood_td@yahoo.com</a>><br><br><br>That's
something I hadn't thought of. The website claims 100%<br>
cotton. I'm going to check the actual manufacturer's label.<br>
<br>
Rob G.<br>
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Steven Hood <<a href="javascript:;"
onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'shood_td@yahoo.com')">shood_td@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> We had that problem once. We went back and looked carefully at the
fiber<br>
> content, and it turned out we were getting cotton/poly blend.<br>
><br>
> Steven R Hood<br>
> 310.756.3555<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On February 1, 2016 2:28:06 PM Rob Graham via Stagecraft<br>
> <<a href="javascript:;"
onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'stagecraft@theatrical.net')">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Greetings Stagecraft Collective:<br>
>><br>
>> We're having an interesting phenomenon happen with some muslin
soft<br>
>> cover flats we're building.<br>
>><br>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> 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"
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>
>><br>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> Rob Graham<br>
>> <a href="javascript:;"
onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'photonguide@gmail.com')">photonguide@gmail.com</a><br>
>><br>
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