Yesterday I talked with Michael Salter about hanging my landscape panels, and Michael recommended several cheap but presentable, efficient, and reliable methods of doing so. In a nutshell, to professionally frame five 51 by 36" pieces of stonehenge paper would cost around a thousand dollars a pop. There are several less expensive, good methods of securing the panels directly to the gallery wall:

Grommets, little circular metal fasteners to place on the back four corners of each panel, and hang the panels on the wall

Fabric tape, fitted to hang off the paper corners like tabs, about an inch across. I would also be using wooden thumbtacks, clear thumbtacks, square tacks, special nails, or little metal t-pins to hold the tabs against the wall.

Double-sided adhesive squares, several behind each panel's side, the kind of 3M or Scotch adhesive with wall posters and photographs.

It's great to know the solutions for this turned out to be inexpensive and really pretty simple. As for bamboo dowels used as a scroll effect, the main option would be to partially hollow them out and fit them with one of the tack or nail types, so the bamboo sticks would directly help secure the paper to the wall.


I am working on Panel 4 today. Thursday I plan on seeing Kartz Ucci to give her a progress report.