What’s A Quilt Ladder

Many quilters love to make historical quilts, keeping to old time patterns and whenever possible, old time fabrics. 

Displaying these wonderful quilts in an original way has to be with a quilt ladder.  These quilt ladders usually are manufactured of natural wood, pine and most often cedar is the wood of choice.  

Very often propping the ladder up against the wall in a corner is an effective decorative look, which takes up little space and cedar as the choice of wood, gives a rustic feel to the display of the historical quilts, also the cedar adds a little extra protection.

Keeping the wood in its natural state prevents any stain or paint from transferring from the quilt ladder to the treasured quilt.  A great idea for safety sake would be to lay a double fold of muslin on the quilt ladder rung, prior to hanging your quilt, thus adding another layer of protection.  

Most of the ladders will accommodate displaying at least four full sized quilts.
A more contemporary quilt display could be a quilt ladder made out of wrought iron, these can be manufactured in an A style frame, where quilts could be displayed on both sides of the ladder.

This would require a little more space, but the effect can be dramatic.  Again it would be recommended that a fold of muslin be placed on the rung before hanging the quilt.

Inventive people have used such products as copper tubing, even plastic tubing or for a real industrial look, plumbing pipe can be used for your quilt ladder. 

Ready made quilt ladders can be purchased on the internet and in some cases can be manufactured to your specifications.  Enjoy an original way to display your quilts.

If you’re looking to learn how to make a quilt, you might want to take a look at my Quilt In A Weekend ebook.  The great thing is you can download it to your computer and be reading it in the next 5 minutes!