What material are you using for your screens?
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    What material are you using for your screens?

    by digital19 » Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:29 pm

    I just wanted to say I absolutely love the images that I see being produced with modul8 and the ability to use multiple projectors really sounds promising.

    My question regards the screens you are using in your gallery images. What type of material is this? It doesn't look like real silk, but I was curious what it was.

    Thanks

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    by sigmasix » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:27 pm

    I assume it's mosquito net
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    by digital19 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:29 pm

    Sweet... That would certainly be cheaper than silk...
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    by Akira » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:40 pm

    Cheaper and much, much less fire-prone!

    There's discussion about this somewhere in vjforums. Try doing a search for silk in there...
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    by boris » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:27 am

    Yes it's not fire proof.
    But you can use some products to do that.

    Akira wrote:Cheaper and much, much less fire-prone!

    There's discussion about this somewhere in vjforums. Try doing a search for silk in there...
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    by Lupin » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:26 pm

    you can also buy M1 (fire proof) canvas too
    we bought M1 mosquito net at a azur scenic
    there you'll find a large range of materials to build screens and all of thoses canvas are fire proof
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    by digital19 » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:28 pm

    Hi Lupin,

    Thanks for the help. Could you point out the mosquito net from the azur scenic site? I looked through their catalog (in english) and didn't see mosquito netting... All of their fabrics are fireproof?
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    by vj_jasper » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:05 am

    wedding dress material can be very good too - in three layers, fifteen centimetres apart for a semi-3D effect. need very strong shapes and colour luminance in the loops for that to look effective.

    for a no-transparency option, cheesecloth can have a nice texture.
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    another option.....

    by spectral » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:57 am

    Try theatre fabric suppliers as they have a consise range of fabrics all DFR and IFR(durable and inherantly fire retarded). They also have "wide" fabrics not just 1.5m wide. Shark tooth gauzes are great. Hard wearing and come in many different grades(thickness's and mesh sizes). They are more expensive than high street fabrics but you dont need to piss around fire retarding them yourself. Also some fire retardents leave stains on fabrics which tend to show up when lit.

    If you are in uk then jc joel www.jcjoel.co.uk are great. They have some very interesting IFR PUFC fabrics ( strong, waterproof and very white )

    As a foot note to all VJ's "get fire retarded screens". I have seen a crap screen go up in flames recently with dripping plastic falling from the sky. It is out responability to follow saftey rules and not cut corners to save a few quid/bucks.
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    by Lupin » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:40 pm

    becareful, theatre safety rules are far different from a club/event regulation. you must use fireproof materials. in case of the safety commussion inspect your installation and you can't guarantee your screens and frames are fireproofs your event will be busted out
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