If you are looking for a way to add color and interest to your living room, dining room or even a bedroom in your house, one thing you can do is to hang a wall tapestry. Tapestries are a little more unusual than paintings, photographs or prints, so as well adding interest, they can become something of a talking point whenever you have guests over.
However, like anything that is a little bit out of the ordinary, they can be tricky to get just right, particularly in how you actually affix them to your wall. One of the more common methods of hanging tapestries is by using heavy curtain rods. Tapestries tend to be heavier than your average pair of curtains, so you will need a curtain rod made of strong material like solid hardwood or wrought iron.
You can actually get purpose-made tapestry rods, which are to all intents and purposes a curtain rod, but designed specifically for hanging tapestries, so you can rely on the fact that they are strong enough to take the weight.
The other difference between tapestry rods and standard curtain rods is in the brackets that come with the rod. With a tapestry rod, the brackets are longer, so the tapestry hangs further from the wall. This is to allow enough air to circulate between the tapestry and the wall behind it, which is essential to prevent too much moisture building up in any kind of humid environment. Moisture can lead to problems like mould, which over time could ruin your tapestry.
While you can go with a plain curtain rod that will allow the full attention of people to focus straight onto the tapestry, there are some types of curtain rods that can be utilized that will act as a frame for the tapestry. Although the curtain rod will stand out it will do so in a way that will draw the eye more to the tapestry rather than the rod.
With the right tapestry on your wall, hung correctly, you can turn any humdrum-looking room into something much more luxurious-looking. Just make sure that you use a strong enough rod and the correct type of brackets if you don’t want the whole thing to detach itself from the wall and collapse in a heap on the floor!