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fabric widths
SCMc:
The five color printed fabric standard fabric width is 1350mm + or -10mm.
The printing roller width was probably 1400mm. The problem then arises as all manufactures did not use the same width fabric. For example, Albatros used 1300mm wide fabric. This is common on the Albatros D.III and D.V aircraft as well as their printed fabric used on the D.V and D.Va as well as the D.VII.
The four color printed fabric standard width was 1300 mm + or -10mm.
You can very accurately determine the fabric width from precise location of seams between the ribs.
In the case of the fabric developed by the museum people in Germany for the Halb.Cl.IV, they increased the printed width to 1400mm and faked the pattern on one side. The fabric used was wider still, so in the end the pattern did not go from selvage edge to selvage edge.
Blue skies,
Dan-San
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