Question about a material tail!! HELP!

[thelocalmermaid]

Hey all,

I really need to make a new tail, but I can never find the right type of material at a fabric store. I need something that has a shinny finish and is easy to paint on.
I need it to be NON SEE THROUGH! so that when the sun shines on it, people wont be able to see my legs! and...I would like also if paint would not blead through it TOO BAD.

please help!

If you know where i can find a non-see through, stretchy(ish), swimable, easy to paint fabric.. please send me a link or let me know where I can find some..

reasonably priced too.. and, no, I'm not looking for neoprene.. yet ;)

Thanks all!!!

~mermaid Jaimie

[Winged Mermaid]

I think your issue is that you're having a hard time finding a lycra/spandex fabric that's made more for swimming and less for dance costumes. They're in the same section at the fabric store. I really feel a fabric's texture and weight when I'm looking for a good swim fabric, because all of them are blends so it really varies fabric to fabric. Really look for a fabric that feels like an actual bathing suit material, rather than being more cotton-y or plastic-y. Some fabric is more like pleather and plastic-y feeling and I wouldn't recommend that.

If you need more than just feeling, look at some tags on some bathing suits and see what the fabric blend is, then compare that to the blend on the bolts (info should be on the ends of the bolts) and see what comes the closest.

I'm not sure you're going to be able to get a material that's shiny and easy to paint on. The shiny material usually has some kind of coating, therefore paint will have a hard time soaking in, if it does at all.

I dislike JoAnn's section for swim/dance fabrics because they don't have much of a selection and they can be on the more pricey side. However if you sign up for the coupons they give out 40% off one regular priced item coupons regularly. You can also check out suppliers online- there are lots of them! Spandex World is probably the most popular (http://spandexworld.com/). Some of them are willing to send swatches to you before a purchase, so make sure to check for that and take advantage of it if you can. Also if you buy online, if at all possible get 4 way stretch! Otherwise you have to worry about lining up the stretch with the right direction of the pattern and it can get complicated.

[kazekoh]

http://www.fabric.com/

I found this place through amazon and they do seem to have a lot of fabric to choose from.:> Winged Mermaid knows more about this stuff then I do so I'd follow what she said~ This is just another site to look at~

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