Theatrical Scrims, Voiles and Sheers - Sharkstooth Gauze, Voile and Sheer by TSA
The scrim that disappears on cue.
Front-lit it holds. Back-lit it vanishes. Sharkstooth, voile and sheer, cut to your stage and flame retarded to AS 1530 standards.
Spec your drape
before you call.
Answer five quick questions. The Drape Selector matches the fabric, fullness and opening style to your venue, then turns it into a PDF spec routed straight to our soft-goods team.
Spec drapes, hoists and venues with all our configuration tools →
Light does the work.
We make the canvas.
A scrim is a loose-weave stage gauze that reads as a solid painted surface when lit from the front, and turns transparent when the light moves behind it. That switch is what lands a reveal on a cue: the scene in front holds, then dissolves to show what was always there. For it to read clean in front of an audience, the weave has to be right, the tension even, and the cut precise.
We manufacture sharkstooth gauze, voile and sheer made-to-measure to suit your rig, flame retarded to AS 1530 standards with the documentation in the bag, and built to hang on the bars and rigging you already have, ready for bump-in. Not sure which weave the cue needs? Spec it in the Drape Selector.
- Front-litThe gauze reads as a solid painted surface.
- The fadeBring the light up behind and the weave opens.
- Back-litThe performer stands clear through the scrim.
Front-lit, it holds. Back-lit, it vanishes. A performer behind sharkstooth gauze reads solid front-lit and transparent back-lit. The effect depends on weave, tension and lighting design.
Four jobs, one cloth.
Exhibitions & galleries
Bespoke voile and sheer, cut to the space - see-through dividers, floating ceilings and feature drops, flame retarded to AS 1530 standards.
Event spaces
Soft, packable sheers that turn a room over for one night and pack down to nothing - hung flat, FR paperwork in the bag.
Film & TV studios
Diffusion and backings that read clean on camera - even fields, no hot-spots, cut to the size your studio floor needs.
Theatre reveals
Sharkstooth that reads as a solid painted surface front-lit, then dissolves on a lighting cue to land the reveal.
The range
Three weaves,
three jobs.
Sharkstooth is the reveal workhorse. Voile softens the light for haze and projection. Sheer is the most translucent layer for atmosphere. Pick a weave to see how it reads under light.
Sharkstooth
- Open diamond mesh
- IFR or treated
- Wide drops, no seam
- ~70% transparent back-lit
Open diamond mesh: fine enough to read as a solid painted surface when lit from the front, open enough to go around 70% transparent when the light moves behind it. This is the cloth that lands a scene-change reveal on a lighting cue. Woven wide, so broad drops hang with no seam.
Voile
- ~55 g/m² sheer
- Takes a colourwash beautifully
- ~85% transparent back-lit
A sheer, not a gauze: finer and lighter than sharkstooth, softer and hazier, around 85% transparent back-lit. It creates diffusion, makes drapes, and takes a lighting colourwash beautifully. Spec it for soft-light scenes, ghost and dream effects, and as a front or rear projection surface where partial transparency is part of the design. Handles cleanly and stores flat in a purpose-built bag sized to the drop.
Sheer
- Lightest, most translucent weave
- Made-to-measure
- Soft-light and projection
The lightest, most translucent weave in the range. Spec it for soft-light scenes, atmospheric depth layers, and projection surfaces where the audience needs to read through the cloth. Made-to-measure and engineered to take a clean wash of light without hot-spotting, flame retarded to the same AS 1530 standards as the rest of the range.
Every weave is made-to-measure to suit your rig, flame retarded to AS 1530 standards with the documentation supplied, sized to hang on your existing bars and rigging, and available with a custom storage bag sized to the drop. Not sure which weave the cue needs? Tell the Drape Selector the job, or browse the full soft-goods range. Weave-by-weave gauze detail, as it comes off the workshop floor, sits on the Reveal Productions scrims page.
Voile and sheer, installed.
Galleries, museums, events and studios around Australia - the same cloth, cut and hung by the team behind Reveal Drapes.
Gauze, on real stages.
Cut, sewn and FR-treated in our Melbourne workshop, the home of Reveal Drapes for over twenty years. Same team, same craft, now backed by the scale of TSA.
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A workshop that did not stop when Melbourne did.
Every drape, banquette and piece of soft scenery manufactured in-house through 18 months of lockdowns.
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36 hoists, one ceiling, every brief accepted.
A 36-axis hoist array and five-chord box truss, the turnkey overhead rigging behind the Great Hall.
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4,000 shows. Five flying rigs. Zero missed cues.
Seven-plus years servicing five performer flying rigs and the full stage automation system.
Read the projectThree PDFs, sent to your inbox.
Questions
about scrims.
If your question isn't here, call us or send a brief - we'll come back to you with the right answer for your venue.
Call 1300 439 872 →Tell us your scrim
specification.
We'll match the cloth, cut it to your bar, and supply the AS 1530 paperwork to match.
- We talk. The opening, and the effect the cue needs.
- We spec. Sharkstooth, voile or sheer, and the finish.
- We make. Cut, sewn and treated to AS 1530.