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A woman at my church teaches ballroom dancing & needs a backdrop made for a recital. She wants to be able to roll it up to use it year after year. It will be painted on. Any suggestions? The measurements are pretty big- 5' high x 27' long.
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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thewordinsigns@alltel.net Posts: 3485 | From: Jamestown, PA 16134 | Registered: Oct 2002
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You could use the old reliable muslim fabric, which we used, back in the days, to paint banners and backdrops....We used to call it "oil cloth".
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Bobbie, I have used muslin from RoseBrand.com to paint several backdrops. They have everything you could possibly need in the area of hardware and related stage mechanics.
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 590 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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Curt, I have never done this before. Do you primer the fabric first? Then stretch it out & attach it to paint on it? What kind of paint, a latex type? There are so many fabrics, you used muslin?
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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thewordinsigns@alltel.net Posts: 3485 | From: Jamestown, PA 16134 | Registered: Oct 2002
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P.S.----I have painted on oil cloth or Muslim with poster paint, bulletin paint and with lettering enamel.......No problem at all. The oil cloth that I used, back in the days, had a "smooth" side and a "rough" side.....Please paint on the "smooth" side......You will not like what you see when you paint on the rough side.
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