House Curtains, Stage Masking and Legs - Custom Manufactured in Australia by TSA
House curtains. Stage masking. Manufactured in Australia.
House curtains and stage masking, custom-cut to your stage and flame retarded to AS 1530 standards. Spec yours in a few guided steps, or send us the brief.
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 →
Stock drapes hardly fit.
We make sure yours will.
The house curtain is faded. The blacks have tide-marks where someone tried to clean them. The legs are 600mm short of the fly bar and the masking is broken. Off-the-shelf stage curtains will not solve any of it.
We make stage curtains and theatre drapes end-to-end in our in-house Melbourne workshop, the home of Reveal Drapes since 2001. Custom-cut to your venue, in the fabric the application calls for, flame retarded to AS 1530 standards, with the certification supplied. Then we install them, and we maintain them. It is one part of the full Drapes & Accessories range.
Four jobs, one workshop.
Different jobs,
different cloth.
Four cloths do the curtain-and-masking work. Each is the right answer to a different job - here is how to tell them apart, and how to spec the one you need. Many other fabrics are available on request.
What do IFR / DFR / NDFR mean?
FR ratings, defined once: IFR is built into the fibre and is permanent. DFR is a durable treatment that survives wash cycles before retreatment. NDFR is a surface coat that degrades with moisture. We explain the ratings here, and fullness and pleating here.
The one the audience sees.
The front-of-house cloth: deep nap, full colour, and the weight to hang in clean folds, so it reads as a show before a light moves. Where wool serge is built to disappear, velvet is built to be looked at - spec it for house curtains, valances and swags, not for masking. Inherent grades hold their FR for the life of the fibre; some velours are treated, so we confirm the rating on the colour you pick.
Spec it in the Drape SelectorThe masking that vanishes.
Matte, dense and non-reflective - wool serge soaks up stray light instead of bouncing it back, so legs and borders read as true black from the seats. It's the workhorse where velvet would be wasted: masking, travellers, blacks and hall division. IFR by nature, so the rating never lapses. Heavier than molton, and dry-clean only.
Spec it in the Drape SelectorThe value black, three metres wide.
Brushed cotton on a 3.0m roll - the wide width cuts seam count on tall drops and keeps the cost down on black-box, studio and short-life builds. Lighter and lower-cost than wool serge; the trade-off is the FR. It's a surface treatment, so it degrades with moisture and needs a retreat after any wet exposure.
Spec it in the Drape SelectorFull blackout, low weight.
Stops light without the bulk - a DFR-treated cloth that kills bleed behind a thinner face fabric, or stands alone as a blackout layer. Choose it over a heavier serge when you need total opacity but not the weight on the bar: tech blackout zones, masking layers and linings. Durably treated, so it survives cleaning cycles before retreatment.
Spec it in the Drape SelectorThese four cover the curtains and the masking. Cycloramas, scrims, printed backdrops and decorative drops each call for a different cloth - tell the Drape Selector the job and it specs the right fabric, or browse the full soft-goods range. Fabric weights, widths and swatch detail sit with the makers on the Reveal Productions theatre drapes page.
Our soft goods,
on real stages.
Cut, sewn and FR-treated in our Melbourne workshop, the home of Reveal Drapes since 2001. 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.
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Questions
about stage drapes.
If your question isn't here, call us or send a brief - we'll come back with the right answer for your venue.
Call 1300 439 872 →Tell us your
application.
Build it in the Drape Selector, or send us the brief. Tell us your application and we'll advise the right fabric and rig, custom-make the drapes, and supply the AS 1530 paperwork with them.