Originally Posted by bearisgray
I saw a quilt being displayed at a store - it was NAILED to the wall - and it was pulling at the nails and looked like it might be getting ready to tear from the weight of the quilt.
I did tell the owner/manager that the quilt was "in danger" being displayed that way. Whether he ever did anything about it - I don't know - but he gave me the impression that he really hadn't known any better and hadn't noticed that it was pulling..
When I was traveling I wanted to hang my avatar quilt on a wall, but I was in an apartment and couldn't put anything larger than pins on the wall. I went to the LQS and asked what they did. It was a large shop in Albuquerque. Great store. The owner showed me how they hung their quilts (and there were lots). They used push-pins. If you push it through the fabric carefully, near the binding, it won't tear any threads. You can hang even a king-sized quilt without damage to the walls or quilt with about 6 (the larger the quilt, the more the pins). I've done that ever since. Every single one of my quilts are hung that way. And so are several in the LQS here.