This is on canvas & calico [muslin] without any problems, except with raw cotton fabric [muslin] with water based paint, it will shrink. So it would be better to give the cloth a coat of diluted paint as ae colour - this is normally white.

Many seaons ago we used to slop it on with a mop 'whitener' to prime the cloth, these days just apply the diluted latex paint as the base.

The worst used to be 'poster paint' which tended to crack up in odd places.

On decent sized tumbler roller, you won't have any dramas.

Ensure the cloth has weight in the tail batten pocket, also a good idea is to incorporate a skirt, with the pocket, to cover any possible uneven stage decking.

The guru on Olio's is Vicki Franks, a member here & available at her website;

http://www.studio-productions-inc.com/ - http://www.studio-productions-inc.com/

 

 

 

Cut the length of the cloth in panel strips across the stage.

Muslin is easily glued along the strip edges together, using epoxy 2 part glue.

Don't try & hang the panels verticly, as the individual cloth wieght will pucker straight up & down.

Run the panels across the stage & cut off at the rquired stage width. This puts an even weight across the glued seam, which makes it easier to hide & mask the seam within the scenic image as the horizon or foreground line.

Also it will roll better on the tumbler drum & hang as if a complete cloth.

You can use the larges diametre of plastic sewerage pipe as the drum, mounted on an alliminuim extruded tube, with gusset cut ply ribs to screw the plastic pipe on.

Use bearing housing mounts on the Ali tube & make up a fixed pulley on one end, also to accomodate the haul rope wind up. Run the haul line thru a floor pulley & attach the lines running end to the tumbler pulley. It is a fairly simple mechanism to bring the cloth in & out.

However this is where we are seperated by a single common lingo!

I most certainly realise the 'KgSM' weight factor of the various fabrics.

We do not call calico muslin here at all -Only over there.?

As from previous experiance when posting anything about using 'calico' in a topic, it apparantly is not understood as a being a cotton fabric there? [this means 'muslin' to the other posters on that side of the lake.]

It is a rarety for us to use 'muslin' for flats or cloths.

For instance what we call a fly 'barrel' are known as  'pipes' in the US, but to us we smoke pipes & use them for water, gas or whatever.

The only reason I use what I believe is the comon term as well there, is to assist others on your side.

However if by offering a translation & doing so, could it be I'm some what of a galah & it's a complete dinkydie  blue, that's fine I'll pull my noggin in from now on & go with known ockerism & terms from now on!