Bergdala Spinnhus

Some ideas for display

I wanted to add some volume to the wearables I was displaying. Some kind of thick hanger...
Cardboard tubes was the solution - cheap, easy to come by and not what everyone else used.

Another way to use a cardboard tube:

Make a slit in the tube and push a flat dowel trough.

Make a hole for hanging the dowel, about 2/3 from the (intended) bottom end.

Depending on where the tube sits on the dowel, the angle shifts.

Hexagonal wire mesh is useful for many things. For a long time, I used the green plastic-coated variety, but now I have found that the galvanized mesh lets itself be painted with ordinary water-based paint. Clear lacquer on a pristine galvanized surface lets the mesh glitter (almost) like silver...

If I can't hang my figures from the ceiling, I have fashioned a couple of stands. Three reinforcing irons (rust and all), threaded through a piece of iron tubing, bent to make "shoulders" and legs. A piece of clear garden hose over the feet to protect the floor surface.
The mesh torso is put over the bent irons.

For displaying a scarf: a "scarf" in a three-layer-thick small-sized hex mesh put on a tripod. Where the ends are crossing, stiff wire acts as a distance. The woven scarf is threaded through, but may still need a pin or two to sit safely.

My first try with plastic: bent with the help of a hair dryer. I have since tried a hot-air gun, with good results - be careful, though, it goes so much faster.

2 mm thick PVC plastic comes in sheets and is easy to cut. More expensive than wire mesh, but feels nicer for some applications.

A hanging display for brochures

The most complicated (to date): a display for 3 cushions.
The "buckets" have a high back, lower front and sides.
The bottom bucket is reinforced with an iron sheet. There is also a iron sheet at the very top, to make a complete cushion space at the top.
There is one continous many-ply wire (actually wire for electric fences) threaded through everything, with an iron ball at the bottom to make the whole thing heavy enough to be stable. I found the iron ball at the chimney-sweep corner of the ironmonger's.
The wire-stops (to stop the buckets sliding down) are fom a bicycle-supply shop.

Ideas are for sharing - I'm glad if my ideas can be of any help for you!