2-Dimensional Scenery

Types:

• Drops
• Drapery
• Framed scenery
• Components: doors, windows, trims

Drops:

Materials:

• Muslin
• Scrim or gauze
• Other and combined

Assembly:

• Horizontal seam
• Top attachment
  • Webbing
  • Batten
• Bottom attachment
  • Pipe or chain pocket
  • Batten
• Cut Openings
  • Gluing and filling

Drapery:

Types:

• Travel
• Guillotine
• Tableau
• Contour
• Braille
• Roll

Materials:

• Velour
• Monks cloth
• Scrim or gauze
• Other

Assembly:

• Webbing top
• Chain pocket bottom
• Vertical seams
• Fullness or panels

Framed Scenery

Types:

• Traditional
• Hollywood
• Framed drop
• Special constructions
  • Door and window flats
  • Irregular shapes

Materials:

• Soft
  • Muslin
  • Velour, other
• Hard
  • Lauan
  • Wafer board and other

Assembly:

Parts:

• Rails (full width)
• Stiles
• Toggles
• Corner brace
• Corner blocks & Keystones

Process:

• Assembly
• Covering
  • Soft: Gluing and trimming
  • Hard

Special constructions

• Hard shapes: cutout and frame as needed.
• Soft shapes: attach profiles to regular shapes and cover.
• Doors and windows:
  • Create with added toggles in a standard flat
  • Create by arranging standard flats around the opening

Components

• Doors
• Windows
• Trims

Doors and Windows

Types:

• Dependent
• Independent

Parts:

• Doors:
  • Shutter
  • Reveal
  • Casing
• Windows:
  • Sash
  • Reveal
  • Casing

Trims

Types:

• Cornices and coves (ceiling corners)
• Casings for doors, windows, openings
• Wainscots, picture rails, baseboards
• Pilasters, columns