Thread: Anyone Use Spanish Moss For a Prop?

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I've seen people use Spanish Moss to make wigs for witch costumes, but I want to use it to make the mane that goes down the back of my werewolf prop, and I was wondering how it'll hold long term? I'm going to be spray painting it, so it will be somewhat sealed, but I don't know how long it lasts once it's off the tree and dried out.

Thanks

There is a fake moss you can buy that's plastic.

I like the fake stuff. I get creeped out by the real on a costume due to blazing allergies...strange spores that got Stephen King on Creepshow.

We use a lot of Spanish moss but only inside the house. We reuse it for many years but we don't collect it ourselves either. Must be nice to live in Florida.

We buy it from the store already dried out.

Originally Posted by hollow

I like the fake stuff. I get creeped out by the real on a costume due to blazing allergies...strange spores that got Stephen King on Creepshow.

That shack that was used for the external scenes for that part of Creepshow was built about a mile from my house in Plum Borough, just outside of Pittsburgh, and we never got any stray spores.

What "bugged" us was a lot of the bugs they used for the segment where the bugs flood the guy's apartment were accidentally released, and running about the Pittsburgh area. Fortunately they were all tropical bugs and they died off during the winter.

Thanks for the info. I was worried about exposure to rain, but then whacked my forehead and said "it grows in the rain!"

Be careful of the real stuff. When I was on a trip to Florida one year it was everywhere, but one of the locals told me it was all full of mites. The spanish moss I have handled was very delicate and I don't think it would hold up to much. I think your best bet would be the fake stuff.

Yep full of tiny bugs.

I have a back yard full of it. Perhaps I should start selling it? LOL

I use it on my tombstones & goth fence.

Well, I guess that's what they make Raid for. Treat with insecticide, then with paint, and I should be in business.

I was going to just use a couple of long wigs, but I didn't want my werewolf looking like the girl from The Wonder Years. I figured werewolf hair would be more course and wild looking, like Spanish Moss.

Put it in a plastic bag, tie it off, put in the sun...that'll kill them bugs.