Talk:Front curtain

Don't merge

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Please do not merge this article. There is enough to be said about front curtains. /Yvwv (talk) 14:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Types of curtain

I recently spent several hours researching the different types of front curtain a theater or stage can have– I have added the "olio" curtain to this article (how was this overlooked for so long?) and expanded on the mechanisms used to raise and lower the different types. However, I am still eluded by the difference between waterfall, braille (brail? braile?), and Austrian curtains (and what is the origin of the word "braille" used to describe a curtain anyway?) as well as the subtleties between a Venetian, contour, and a Venetian contour (there seem to be people who distinguish these). Google Books was not helpful– a theater person with a theater text on hand might be able to make better sense of these than I have done here. They require additional treatment.

Also, I have created and added GIF aminations of the Austrian, olio, and traveller curtains to show how they open and close. The article could really use similar animated images of the remaining types to clearly distinguish them– but my time on this earth is limited, and I leave that task to others now. KDS4444^Talk 09:35, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

• • Excellent job. Very well done article. `50.202.81.2 (talk) 17:32, 18 August 2014 (UTC)