Play with the Display

Craftspeople obsess about their displays. Every Artist or craft person I know has several display options tucked away somewhere because , not only do we like options , we are never satisfied. I have two craft mediums that I exhibit currently , so that means more displays. There are two different displays for shows , and I have work displayed in two different stores , each with it's own display. It gets confusing.

My Stained glass displays evolved over the years. First there was the home made deal. The studio plumbing was revamped and I made display racks from the old copper pipes. These lasted longer than I would have thought , but when I eventually found a custom stained glass display made from aluminum, I went ahead and replaced the copper with this. The new display was really versatile and sturdy. It is no longer being made. Stained glass is less popular , and I suspect the metal in the display is costing much more. The original price was $1,200 . I could probably get quite a bit for the aluminum. And the copper display might bring in even more. Here's the aluminum one :

Very versatile. You can use as many segments of it as you want , in many different configurations. The only problem was that each section is 3 feet wide and either needs to ride on roof racks or inside a large enough mini van.

Last year , though , I quit doing stained glass at shows. I now only have it in one store , as I am phasing myself out of it. The display it's on in the store is pretty amazing. Also home made. I have no photo of this , but it's basically some wooden rails suspended from a high ceiling.

When I transitioned my shows to all crochet I just used the same display and adapted it. It worked really well , but there was still the drawback of the rails and sections being 3 feet wide and six feet long. Here's a photo of the same display with crochet.

Looks pretty good , but part of me wanted something that would go into my Honda Fit.

Then there are the store displays. I have work in two stores. In one , I brought my own display for the crochet. The stained glass was displayed as described above. The crochet display was really just some room

dividers with rails adapted for crochet. What I like about it is that people can walk around all sides of it and the majority of what is there is easy to reach and touch.

In the other store I have only crochet. I am required to display this on a two foot section of slatwall , six feet high. There is some shelving below the slatwall. I have been struggling with this display because it is not what I'm used to. I'm thinking I need to approach it as a place where there are just a few precious pieces of work that I change out from time to time. What has sold there so far has been fairly high end. The other store has a bunch of work where everyone can touch it. This display seems more geared to just looking :