I don't have a frame, but we bought a house near Asheville 3 yrs ago and the previous owner said that the hooks in the ceiling were put here for her mother to hang her quilt frame. The ceiling in this house is low so I doubt that they were able to raise it up out of the way. We don't know much about the house, except that it was built before they had electriciy and running water. It has a spring house attached to it(no spring anymore) and that was how they kept things cool in the days before electricity.