Date:         Tue, 14 May 1996 12:39:40 -0400
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From:         SyncroHead@aol.com
Subject:      Re: curtains for 89 vanagon

In a message dated 96-05-14 01:43:15 EDT, JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joel Walker)
writes:

>one thing i have noticed: i figured light colored fabric would be best ...
>reflect the heat, you know. yeah, well, maybe ... but what it does do is
>let a LOT of light inside. darker fabric would make it darker and easier
>to sleep in wal-mart parking lots. ;)
>

I recently bought some fabric for making curtains and "looked through" a lot
of fabrics and found that the light permeability has a lot more to do with
the weave of the fabric than the color.  I ended up with a light grey fabric
that lets almost no light through.

Jim Davis
87 GL Syncro
88 GL Wolfsburg

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