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Seeing enough details in the giclee and photographs, I can guess that these beautiful organic artworks have a great variety of textures. Are they stiff enough to add balanced hanging strings or lightweight fishing line for hanging in space or on the wall( without arcing or warping)? On first glance, that is what I see as a possibility. That way, if the customer wants to put them on a table instead of a wall it will be easy for them to do so and change their mind in the future.
Good luck!
Alice

Oooh, I just read Alice's comment. Great minds ;-)

Hi Geri -

These are lovely - I have never heard the name before. They seem like perfect candidates for a shadow box display, without glass. It would not have to be very deep, but would give you the backing that you need to hang them.

I like the idea of fishline, but if the shapes won't hold you could put a rim of aluminum or some other metal - thin - around the shape, like stained glass, and hang the pieces from the metal. You might have to experiment a bit with the type of metal you can easily shape to your work that will hold it but not be too flexible. Some model shops carry "U" shaped extrusions for architectural models that may work. I cannot tell how thick your pieces are from the pics. Good luck!

Hi Geri, These are great! Very organic. It's very similar (look-wise) to the Penny Rugs from the 1800's. This technique has been on my techniques-to-try list. I'm still trying to figure out how to hang it since there's no solid structure backing it.

I swear by velcro. I recently displayed a similar type of quilt, in 7 seperate pieces, the largest being about 12 x 14 and very oddly shaped. I sewed on two 1x1 inch velcro pieces in strategic places (you might want more) and than you can either attach it to the removable command velcro strips, or do something like I did for a floating affect. I took a thick dowel, sawed it into half inch pieces, hammered a nail through that was a bit longer (for the wall). Then I glued velcro on that (although you could nail through the velcro, too). Pieces hang nicely when supported by 2 or more of these.

When I knew that I was going to have weirdly shaped work, I also took an extra step before binding. I hand-sewed a medium gauge wire along the edge of the quilt, than folded over the binding to hide it underneath. I also have zig-zag stitched over the wire. I think the wire makes a great difference in relieving floppiness.
Here are examples of pieces that can be hung with velcro very easily and without damaging walls if you use the command strips. They are all edged with wire.

http://www.sheawilkinson.com/#!Pangaea/zoom/cybk/imagexst
http://www.sheawilkinson.com/#!Antlia-Dwarf/zoom/cybk/image1p7x
http://www.sheawilkinson.com/#!Triangulum-Galaxy-/zoom/cybk/imageed9

Thank you. Those are entirely normal polyester sewing thread, and for the contour lines I would go over each one 3 or 4 times to get the desired thickness. For one of the pieces, Plateau, I used a satin stitch for all of the lines so that they were very thick and visible from a distance. That was exhausting!