Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:17:04 -0400
From: "Deborah Hunt" <maskhunt-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Screen stretching help!


For a small round shadow screen you might also try the largest
embriodery rinds you can find. They come as a set of 2 with the
outside one having a screw system that can be tightened. I have tried
oval ones before,
Deborah

On 2/3/08, Michael Richardson <zenchops59-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> The screen method that I have used for many years, remarkably reliable considering the abuse it gets, remains plain old cotton bed sheet. ( or bed sheet type fabric ) I sew a "tube " of cloth at the bottom and top edges ( I have stages that are 6' wide, and I have stages that are 12' wide ) and thread
>  a piece of wood into that tube. ( like a 1x2" )  This then recieves 1/2 of a loose pin hinge, screwed through the fabic, into the board. ( 2 or 3 per edge ) The other part of the loose pin hinge is screwed to the stage frame. Using coat hanger wire, I make these  " pins", that are about 3 " long, with a loop bent on the end. These connect the screen to the frame, on the top and bottom. Sides are pulled tight and secured with pushpins, in edges of the same bed sheet fabric which are triple lapped and hemmed. As my stage frame is made of wood, the push pins stay in there on the sides.
>
>       I've gotten more than 1000 gigs out of a single sheet this way!
>
>        You can also wash your screen without taking it off the wood too.
>
>      Michael
>
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