Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:37:43 -0700 (MST)
From: "Stu & Diane (aka HDulc & Freshwater)" <freshdlc-AT-primenet.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: "Backdrop Blues"


When I do shows in windy conditions, I usually anchor my scrim curtain in
the following manner:

1) A long piece of black elastic is fastened to the middle bottom of the
curtain with a safety pin.

2) The other end of the elastic is stretched down and tied to a shock cord,
which is hooked onto the two side bars which form part of the floor of the
stage. (The stage is basically an aluminum-pole cube, like a tent.

Maybe something similar would work for your backdrop.

~  Diane
   Freshwater Pearls Puppetry
   Minnesota, USA

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>I have a continuing problem.  A single backdrop
>cloth and pvc pipe frame in the wind.  The frame
>is 7' long.  Should I..........slit the cloth........weight
>the bottom of the cloth........get galvanized pipe...
>cut half-moon air holes in the cloth .....OR   all
>of the above?  I'm desperate in Dixie (outdoors)
>
>Conrad Hartz
>Hartz Handcarved Puppets....since 1975
>"Wizardry in Wood"
>http://www.mindspring.com/~gkoepke/hartz.htm
>
>
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