Framing

I have puzzled for a while on a good way to display my flat felt work. I am really not happy with most of the ways I have seen to directly attach pieces of felt to walls. I want mine to hang vertically which appears to be hard to achieve. As textile works though the feel is important and of course there texture and a lot of this is lost if you frame in a box frame for example .

So I have been testing an alternative technique

First take some stretcher bars , which you can but very cheaply in art shops and are made in a wide range of sizes and hammer them together into a frame.

Then cover them with some opaque fabric of a colour that's sympathetic to your final effect. In this case white. Quickly and easily stapled to the wooden bars.

Attach your felt masterpiece to its backing fabric . Centre on the covered frame , this is probably the hardest task and staple into position, taking care of the corners. Because of the two layers of fabric all your attaching stitching is hidden

Trim the fabric , attach gummed paper tape to give a professional finish.

Here the finished piece. Just a small test piece for now.

Which I am still not sure I have got it completely right , but I am making progress.

 

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