0 a type of cloth that is loosely woven (= the threads are not pulled tightly together):
A loose-weave linen, scrim is brilliant at giving a final shine to windows and glassware.
A series of painted scrims and sets slide across the large stage, allowing the children to seem to fly against a backdrop of stars twinkling in the sky.
This is a gripping story about a psychiatrist's patient who is obsessed with the idea that what we call reality is only a thin scrim over a much darker world.
The movie Saving Private Ryan showed the second world war through a scrim of Vietnam movies.
The most common type of cloth encountered in the food industry is 100 percent cotton in an off-white loose weave fabric known variously as stockinette, mutton cloth or scrim.
Vast surging waves are crashing over the stage of the Haymarket - projected on a giant scrim - in the opening storm scene of The Sea.
Jay-Z took the stage behind a scrim, casting a larger-than-life silhouette.
The space is delimited by a circular white scrim (figure 3).
Ghosts rise up from an invisible scrim, and a caretaker holding a lantern and his dog cower in front of the gate in fear.
Another type of scrim is called bobbinet/bobbinette.
The variety used for special effects is properly called "sharkstooth scrim".
The story of these chapters is reproduced with great realism using a scrim and life-sized set.
