We have 4 antique, woven carpets that we wanted to hold on the wall of our basement family room. My wife's great-great aunt and uncle purchased them on a journey to Mexico in the 1920's. After looking at a couple of various ways to do this, I developed an idea to clamp the string fringe at the edge of the carpet between 2 pieces of plexiglass. Then I might hang the plexiglass on a nail on the wall allowing the rugs to hang. This wound up working effectively. I like the way that the fringe at the end of the rugs punctuates on the leading and hangs down on the bottom.
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0:00 (introduction).
1:50 (Making).
6:06 (mounting).
9:05 (hanging).
10:10 (Mount St. Helens).
11:35 (conclusion).
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I have a larger rug that we mounted on the wall, it hangs from a carpet strip that acts as the hanger. Works great, that would be a lot harder as yours are so light. Charles
I agree about the Mt St.Helens piece… maybe a fairly dark or even black frame?
I think the Mount St. Helens piece needs a boundary, a frame to offset it from this wall. If you hang it on a white wall (or any other solid colour), then it is fine as is. You might put it on top of a back-plate rather than adding a frame, just some thin multiplex that you paint. How wide? it may need quite a bit, up to 10 cm?
As usual a beautiful job Frank, may I suggest another idea for connecting the two pieces together, on the back piece of plexiglass you could drill and tap it. Acrylic sheeting holds thread’s very well.
Nice jobs…well executed sir! I might not have gone with too much attention to the uniformity of the upper fringe, given that the lower would be, as it were..free to roam. Also, it is possible to buy clear plastic screws which (obviously) would be less conspicuous than the brass alternative, particularly if one were to tap the rear plate for those screws.
Oh yeah!! Teeth on a comb old sport!!
After a bit of sanding, you can scrape the edge of the plexi with the back side of a hack saw blade to “polish” the plexi edge fairly quickly
The invisible frames really work well.
For the old light switch hole, would making a small elaborate/decorative vintage/antique switch of a small locate critter be suitable? Maybe a iridescent lizard or salamander?
Good idea!
And, if there’s still power in that box, maybe a small light to light the critter from behind?
@Barnaby Jones That would be so cool!
I’ve polished the edges of acrylic without heat, thismay sound weird, but it worked
I happen to have ‘valve grinding compound’, the stuff used for cars
Start with sanding to a fine grit, use coarse compound, then use fine compound, finally i used a chrome polishing compound (big block like soap) on a polising wheel
Those rugs are beautiful, and they are hung perfectly!
Nice work making them so discrete! I wonder if you could use the light switch hole as a switch for some LED’s that are mounted behind the Mt St Helens pic – This would kind of frame it in light, rather than a more traditional frame perhaps.
To back the Mt St. Helen’s piece, I would consider something that pulls one of the colors from the wall hangings over to that side of the wall. It would really tie the room together. 😁
Thanks Frank. For 8 pieces of plexiglass I would have done it like you as well and minimize CNC just given how small the project is.
Looks great, Frank. I like the color the rugs add to the space. Really appreciate how you share your thought processes.
I had a larger rug to hang awhile ago, and used a carpet tack strip. Screwed it to the wall, and the tacks held the rug without damaging it.
Beautiful job Frank. Again, I am envious of your attention to detail and depth you give to each project. Make On my Friend. Maker 238
I always enjoy your stop-motion work. The small rugs on the wall are perfect for the room.
I like the monochrome of the St. Helens piece against the wall. But, it occurs to me… if you want to set it off from the wall a little more, you could backlight it. Run a strip of LEDs around the back surface of the piece. Could even sneak power through the wall box for the intercom that’s conveniently already there to avoid having visible cords…
I feel like over time and the small amount of movement will rip the tassels off. I think that clamping onto the meat of the carpet itself a bit so it’s holding onto something substantial. And/or putting a radius on the inside edges so the tassels are not rubbing against a sharp edge.
Using plywood for the Mt St Helens might make it more interesting. The result should look like a topographic map.
For the hole on the wall, you may look at some night light that fits in a junction box, if you still have the wires in the hole. Those night lights are functional, and do not look out of place.
The rugs definitely would not be my first design choice but I love the project you made