Originally Posted by quilter on the eastern edge
Several of my friends are embroiderers and they use tacks to fasten the fabric to the stretcher bars.
Try www.berlinembroidery.com Click on "embroidery supplies" and then scroll down to "embroidery tools". You will see brass tacks on the list. There is also a kit which has a pusher for inserting the tacks. Will they do for your purposes?
Tanya Berlin is in Calgary, by the way, and if you are in that area you may be able to go and pick them up.
Those tacks might work but it does not say how wide the heads are. The width is very important .I need ones that are about 5/8" wide. If they are that wide they would work. I live in Medicine Hatand don't have means to go to Calgary. But I think I can order on line from that source. So you have any of the tacks that you can measure?