I have a design for a simple, easily collapsible PVC frame with a stretched canvas background for adjustable twine "racks" used for hanging jewelry cards from to replace your grid wall. The background cloth would be at the rear of the pipes with the twine at the front creating a shadowbox effect.
I need to head to bed so I can function at work in the morning, but I will try and get a set of plans and details drawn up for you tomorrow, with easily followed instructions and a materials list.
With the design I have in mind, a large portion of the PVC frame could also be camouflaged using fabric to help it look more upscale.
It would all collapse down into a easily packable bundle that should weigh around 10 lbs or so for a 5'-6" (or taller) by 3'-0" wide frame, including the fabric background.
Will get back with you after I've got it designed and ready.
This is in no particular order, just stuff that's jumping in my head after reading this.
1) Instead of wire screens to display some of the jewelry, what about the back of a cardboard box (potentially covered in fabric) with tulle on it. The holes in the tulle would give you a grid, the fabric would jazz up the cardboard, and the cardboard would hold the jewelry (thinking earrings mostly)
2) For necklaces, how about wire Y forms with double arms -- so you can put the vertical beam in some kind of base and put the chain between each pair of slanted beams.
We had for a while display trees. We had bare dry arbutus branches and a trunk with holes drilled in it and a base; it all snapped together just like a fake xmass tree. Add some coiled artificial garland with led mini lights around then hang or clip a bunch of different things off it. Very light weight and a fairy forest effect. Short branches in a brass vase like a boquet also worked for table display.
One of the things I have done and it looks good is to get boxes and put the under the tablecloths. It can be a good way to get vertical and you can store stuff in them. You would have to make sure your tablecloths are wide enough to deal with it, but it may be a solution and you may already have appropriate height wood or plastic boxes lying around your house. May be a decent temporary solution.
This is what I was going to recommend (fabric tablecoth over boxes- especially if you can use the boxes you are already packing the jewelry in)- you could also, in theory- put pins through the fabric into the cardboard to hang or secure jewelry.
As for the picture frames, you could run ribbon in front of the picture to hang earrings from. At home, I have use a sushi mat on my wall for all of my earrings, though this only works for dangly ones.
I have no idea what you are after or what you have now but when my mother had an arts and craft shop she had some jewellery by the till on tiny domes made of metal rungs. I've got on of them on my dresser now and it doesn't weigh a thing and holds a lot of earrings and even some necklaces. The one I have is about 15cm in diameter and perhaps 30cm tall. You might even be able to make one yourself out of steel wires or such. Or perhaps find ones that can be stapled inside each other during transport.
No idea if this is helpful but it's all I could think of.
Re: Like thisfabricdragonFebruary 2 2012, 18:29:36 UTC
ah... while cute this has some issues.. it takes up a lot of space, is easily crushed, and holds no more earrings than a flat picture with screen on it. at the moment i have a large wood earring rack. its main flaw is that its is big...
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I need to head to bed so I can function at work in the morning, but I will try and get a set of plans and details drawn up for you tomorrow, with easily followed instructions and a materials list.
With the design I have in mind, a large portion of the PVC frame could also be camouflaged using fabric to help it look more upscale.
It would all collapse down into a easily packable bundle that should weigh around 10 lbs or so for a 5'-6" (or taller) by 3'-0" wide frame, including the fabric background.
Will get back with you after I've got it designed and ready.
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1) Instead of wire screens to display some of the jewelry, what about the back of a cardboard box (potentially covered in fabric) with tulle on it. The holes in the tulle would give you a grid, the fabric would jazz up the cardboard, and the cardboard would hold the jewelry (thinking earrings mostly)
2) For necklaces, how about wire Y forms with double arms -- so you can put the vertical beam in some kind of base and put the chain between each pair of slanted beams.
If I think of anything else, I'll add it.
Good luck!
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As for the picture frames, you could run ribbon in front of the picture to hang earrings from. At home, I have use a sushi mat on my wall for all of my earrings, though this only works for dangly ones.
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No idea if this is helpful but it's all I could think of.
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a "tiny dome made of metal rungs"?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46704693@N07/6806329293/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46704693@N07/6806328773/in/photostream/
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while cute this has some issues..
it takes up a lot of space, is easily crushed, and holds no more earrings than a flat picture with screen on it.
at the moment i have a large wood earring rack. its main flaw is that its is big...
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