...an assist with a black light special effect, if you please!!!?

Question

...working on a black light special F/X project, & need a type of material. Here's what I'm doing: I have built a posterboard framework, big enough to fit in an average-sized window; the window itself, is covered in a black felt material, and framed by curtains. Strung vertically across the framework, are 3 layers of black nylon thread, w/each layer an inch apart, and each thread length 1/2 inch apart from each other. On each layer of threads, I am affixing glow-in-the-dark stars, eyes, whatever, with the larger ones on the front layer, and the smaller ones, progressively back. When I shine a black light on this for a short period, this will, of course create an eerie 3-D effect.

...looking for material, kinda like the stuff used to make woman's stockings, to cover the front of the framework, so that in normal light, the illusion will be just (or almost) blackness, but when the black light is introduced, the glow-in-the-dark material will shine through.

...any ideas???

Answer 1

use something very sheer, like the drapery liner stuff...put the lights behind the material so it doesn't reflect off it.
my lovely and tallented wife and i did a set for a christmas play for a church in iowa a few years ago...and the lighting effect whether from within the material or outside the material gave a different effect throughout the play... clear as mud i know it wasn't cheese cloth, but it was a very sheer fabric that came in big yardage with no seams as i remember.