Displaying Flat Textiles

MTS Handouts

Online Resources

• ​Textile Display Supplies
• Hanging Large Textiles
• ​Frame or Shadowbox Installation
• ​Making and Attaching a Velcro Header
• Hanging a Textile Using a Velcro Slat
• ​Installing a Slat onto a Wall
• ​How to Make Your Own Steel Velcro Slat
• ​Making Wood Velcro Slats

• Is your Textile Suitable for Framing?—Minneapolis Historical Society 
• Framing Textiles—Minneapolis Historical Society
• Textile Mounting—Minneapolis Historical Society 
• An Alternative to Velcro? by Gwen Spicer (WAAC)
  
• Evaluating Magnetic Primers for Mounting Textiles on Rigid Backboards with Rare Earth Magnets by Katheryn Etre et al