Hanging a Tapestry and Mistakes were Made…


My wife has a thing for medieval art and costume. She swoons over illuminated manuscripts and 14th century furniture. Consequently our bedroom if full of period art. reproduction furniture, a tomb effigy, and now 5 different wall tapestries.

I installed a woven Belgium tapestry on a steel cable in our basement bedroom so that we could slide it in front of a couple ugly electrical panels and then be able to slide it out of the way when we need to flip a breaker or use the generator transfer switch.

I designed and made a couple of Cathar Cross wall escutcheon on the X-carve to serve as decoration at the anchor points of the cable and to tie it all in with our medieval bedroom theme. They turned out really slick and everything was great until I went to test fit and realized that I had mis-measured and that I couldn’t use them at all for their intended purpose.

Side Note: This was the last little video I shot before shoulder surgery.

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