I’ve talked a lot about backgrounds and how to use them in the last few days. I want to finish up the discussion with a little tip I picked up over the years for getting the wrinkles out of muslins.

A great place to store your muslins is stuffed in a bag. The downside to this is that when you pull them out, they look awful…terribly wrinkled. In the past, I tried using some of those commercial spray on wrinkle releasers but found that they caused a buildup of gunk after repeated uses. I eventually found an even easier solution.

Get yourself an empty pump spray bottle and fill it with some filtered or bottled water. I like to use filtered or bottled because it cuts down on deposits building up on the muslin. Now simply spray an area of the muslin after hanging it up so that it’s slightly damp. Grab two handfuls of cloth a few feet apart and pull it tightly a few times to stretch it out. That’s it, the wrinkles will come right out. Just repeat the process for the whole muslin. I can get the wrinkles out of a 10×20 foot muslin in about five minutes by myself using this trick.