TSA Soft Goods
Drapes Catalogue
Free PDFThe full fabric range, weights and FR classes.
Soft Goods
Stage curtains, made in Australia.
The soft goods that frame the stage. Flame retarded to AS 1530 standards, cut to your fly bar, hire-ready when you need a black-out by Tuesday.
Trusted on stages and in venues around Australia
The Drape Selector
Spec your drape
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 →
01What is the job?
House curtain
Masking legs
Cyclorama
02Which fabric?
VelvetIFR
Wool SergeIFR
Turo MoltonNDFR
03How full should it hang?
Flat
75%
100%
04How does it open?
Traveller
Guillotine
Tableau
05What size?
FabricWool Serge
FR classIFR
Size12.0 x 7.0 m
SpecReady →
Step 1 of 5 · The job
01 / The Service
Six ways
we keep your stage dressed.
01
Manufacture
Cut, sewn, and weighted in our Melbourne workshop. Wool serge, poly-cotton, velour, and specialty fabrics, to your fly-bar dimensions.
02Treat
Flame retardant treatment to AS 1530 standards. Compliance documentation supplied on request, every time.
03Hire
Stage-ready stock from Gold Coast and Melbourne depots. Certified, inspected, and packed for the next show.
04Install
In-house rigging crews. Documented install, from load-in to hang. Australia wide, regional and touring engagements covered.
05Maintain
Inspection, cleaning & repair. We service drapes from rooms we've kitted out years ago, alongside stock we didn't supply.
06Custom
Printed backdrops, scenic appliqué, oversized cycloramas. Bring us the drawing or the venue measurements; we'll specify the build.
Across the lifecycle
Once your soft goods are in, they sit inside the same compliance window as your hoists, tracks, and rigging. Our Venue Systems Health Check covers all of it on one visit.
02 / The Range
Stage Curtains, Drapes
& Soft Goods explained.
From the front-of-house curtain to the masking tucked away backstage, every stage curtain and theatre drape serves a purpose. Select any numbered pin to see what each element does, then jump straight to its product page.
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Australian-made soft goods, since 2001
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Trusted nationally since 2014
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Metres of fabric sewn
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Designed, cut & sewn in-house
04 / Materials & Make
Specified to your stage.
You've seen what each drape does - now the cloth that makes it. The right fabric turns a shape into a look: a rich front-of-house curtain, masking that vanishes under light, or a gauze that shifts from solid to sheer. Pick a fabric to see the look it gives you.
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.
Velvet / Velour · IFR
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.
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Wool Serge · IFR
The 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.
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Turo Molton · NDFR
The 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 than wool serge and well suited to dry, indoor spaces. Its NDFR rating is a surface treatment, so allow for scheduled retreatment - a service we handle in-house.
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Sharkstooth · IFR or treated
The reveal workhorse.
Open diamond mesh: fine enough to read as a solid painted surface when lit from the front, open enough to go around 70% transparent when the light moves behind it. This is the cloth that lands a scene-change reveal on a lighting cue. Woven wide, so broad drops hang with no seam, with an optional sewn-in S Wave heading for a precise, repeatable wave on bump-in.
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Voile / Sheer · Fine gauze
Soft light, haze and projection.
The finest, lightest end of the range. Voile is a softer, hazier gauze than sharkstooth, around 85% transparent back-lit - spec it for soft-light scenes, ghost and dream effects, and projection surfaces where partial transparency is part of the design. Sheer is the most translucent weave we make, for atmospheric depth layers where the audience reads straight through the cloth. Both are made-to-measure and engineered to take a clean wash of light without hot-spotting.
Explore scrims & gauzesNo standard drops. Every cloth here is cut and sewn to your fly-bar dimensions, hemmed and weighted to your venue's chain weight - bring us drawings or measurements and we handle the rest. Bespoke manufacture is flame retarded to AS 1530 standards, hire stock is made with FR fabrics which meet the same standards, and compliance documentation is supplied on every supply. Specialty fabrics on request. Not sure which cloth the job needs? Tell the Drape Selector the job and it specs the right fabric.
Built for your sector
Already working in your world.
Whatever you run, the way a drape is specified, made and rated changes with the room. Find the approach built for your venue.
Recent workOur soft goods,
Our soft goods,
on real stages.
Cut, sewn and FR-treated in our Melbourne workshop, then specified, supplied and installed by our crews Australia wide.
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Theatres · Drapes
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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Stadiums & Events · Rigging
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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Stadiums & Events · Service
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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TSA Soft Goods
Drapes Guide
Free PDFFabrics, fullness, track and fixings, explained.
Our Melbourne workshop
Reveal Drapes & Soft Goods, by TSA.
Australian-made soft goods for over two decades, since 2001. In-house machinists. Full lifecycle - design, manufacture, install, maintain, hire. Folded into TSA in 2023. Same workshop, same craft, now backed by the scale of TSA. The making and fabric detail behind it - weights, widths, swatches - lives on the Reveal Productions fabric library.
Workshop to stage
Sewn in-house, hung nationally.
Scroll through the work - house swags for Moulin Rouge, S-wave velvet at the NGV Triennial, event voile, and the workshop floor where every drape is cut and hemmed.
House swags for Moulin Rouge
S-wave velvet at the NGV Triennial
Pleated ceiling fill, chandelier going in
Voile and festoon, event-ready
Tinsel drape checked before it ships
Swagged blue velvet at Crown
Hemmed in-house on the workshop floorThe bits people always ask.
If we missed yours, send it through. We'll get back to you.
All drapes manufactured in-house are flame retarded to AS 1530 standards. Compliance documentation is supplied on request. Hire drapes are made with FR fabrics which meet AS 1530 standards.
Yes. We manufacture to your fly bar specifications, room dimensions, and chosen fabric. Bring us your drawings or venue measurements - we handle the rest.
Yes. Drapes manufactured in Melbourne are delivered nationally, with installation available anywhere TSA has a crew - Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne, plus regional and touring engagements.
A scrim (sharkstooth or voile) is a mesh or gauze fabric used for lighting effects - it reads opaque when lit from the front, transparent when lit from behind. A cyclorama is a solid, curved or flat backdrop used for sky effects, large-format projection, and studio backgrounds. Both manufactured in-house and available to hire.
Ready when you are
We've got your stage.
You've got your show.
Manufacturing, hire, and install - Australia wide. One conversation. End to end.