My mother brought back a small tapestry from Ecuador, and she wants my help in figuring out how to mount it on the wall. It’s not large (about 4 feet by 2 1/2 feet) but the fringy end are on the sides, not the top, so there’s no easy way to tie it to a dowel and hang it that way. Any advice? It’s a pretty rustic looking piece, so it doesn’t have to be especially classy.
We did ours by mounting a curtain rod on the wall and using rings on the rod that have clips to hold up the tapestry.
We used a cast iron rod with pretty finial and plain black ring clips.
There are special clamping hangers made for just this sort of thing. One place (gotten to by googling “quilt hangers”):
http://www.robinsonswoodcrafts.com/compression-quilt-rack.htm - looks like this place may do them to custom lengths.
I have a quilt that hangs on the wall and the person who put it together for me attached a sleeve to the back as TexasDriver suggested. I got a curtain rod and mounting brackets, and put the rod through the sleeve, and hung it up that way.