# How do I hang a tapestry on a wall?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-hang-a-tapestry-on-a-wall/576315 "2011-03-28T21:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-hang-a-tapestry-on-a-wall/576315/1 "2011-03-28T21:31:17Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-hang-a-tapestry-on-a-wall/576315/2 "2011-03-28T21:44:06Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![TexasDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TexasDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasDriver)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-hang-a-tapestry-on-a-wall/576315/3 "2011-03-28T22:04:25Z")

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I would sew on a [sleeve](http://quilting.about.com/od/decoratingwithquilts/ss/quilt_sleeve.htm).

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-hang-a-tapestry-on-a-wall/576315/4 "2011-03-29T20:10:11Z")

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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](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.