Afraid I can't help you about making your own organizer. I have a shoe rack made of plastic and it looks like wide stitches on plastic with binding but I just bought mine. I hang my rulers by the hole in each of them. I do have a few small ones that didn't have a hole so I threw them in an Omnigrid mesh pack because I don't really use them that often. One of the fantastic board members told me about 3M clips and that's what I use to hang them with. If you're interested, I'll dig out the acrylic/hook pix.