All of The Toll of the Sea was shot outdoors, with the one "interior" scene shot in sunlight under a muslin sheet.
He used muslin sheet coated with a mixture of birdlime suspended in linseed oil to make the sheet impermeable.
The first one held a cot with a straw mattress over which were drawn undyed muslin sheets and a thin wool blanket.
The muslin sheets shrouding the furniture were of marginal value, as they had been disturbed over time and now only partially covered the dressers and wardrobes.
To Taniquel's relief, he made no attempt to rise, although his hands stirred on the unbleached muslin sheets.
The body is ritually washed by select members of the Jewish community, wrapped in a muslin sheet, and placed in an all-wood casket.
"We're busy," says Kate, pulling the tattered muslin sheet over her nakedness.
He stripped to his underwear, lay down between the scratchy muslin sheets, and dozed fiffully, his ears attuned to any noise.
He used white umbrellas to shade models from the glare of spotlights and, on location, achieved a similar effect by stringing muslin sheets on poles.
He was wearing neither patch nor powder at the moment, but was quite as pale as the muslin sheet.