lightproof cloth

[marcel]

Hello everyone. I am setting a new darkroom and remember seeing an ad for lightproof cloth for darkroom windows. Does anyone know where to get it? Any other ideas to darken a room and still be able to open the windows would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance for your valuable feedback: Marcel

[pat_j._krentz_29_palms__ca]

Once I used flat black exterior paint on both sides of the glass and

then hung the large thick plastic bags on the inside, worked very

well. The other that worked very well was to get a black material

the size of the window or larger and then put black felt on top of

that, it helps if you have a wife who sews, these both worked very

well for me. Pat

[wilhelm]

See my recent thread on Photo.net. I got lots of good responses. Bill

[terry_carraway]

Porter's (www.porters.com) carries several types of light proof

material.

 

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You can also get light proof curtain liner material at fabric stores.

[thomas_wollstein]

When I sought something like that for my bathroom window, I was

offered the stuff used in x-ray labs. But you know the prices for

medical products ... So I tried this (with sucess): I went to a store

that sells bulkware cloth and sought out the cheapest black material

they had. I put this over my strongest flash and kept adding further

layers until I could see the flash no more. Then I added a further

layer, calculated how many metres I needed. That was much cheaper than

any ready-made solution. So I bought it, sewed the layers together at

home, and had (and still have) an affordable solution. It may be bit

heavier than one layer of special light-tight tissue, but that doesn't

disturb me.

[steve_nicholls2]

Avery effective and affordable solution is full blockout curtain

lining. it is available up to 240 cms wide and is very east to work

with.

[chris_patti1]

My darkroom is a small office and adjoining bathroom with a total of 3

windows and a door. Since it is used for other purposes, my window

treatment has to be completely reversable and quick to install and

remove. I found some plastic corregated sheets at TAP plastics (like

sheets of cardboard but made from plastic) which I cut to exactly fit

over the windows fitting tightly within the inside edge of the window

frame. I covered these with "blackout" plastic available in rolls

from photo stores. I then obtained some densely woven black cloth at

a fabric store which I cut to hang over the outside edge of the window

frame. I sewed small rings into the top edge of the fabric, which I

hang on little eye hooks set at the top of the outside edge of the

window frame. The combination of the plastic sheets and hanging cloth

is completely light tight, can be set up or taken down in about 30

seconds for all three windows, and is stowed easily when not in use.