Some Display Booth Tips

Here are some quick tips based on my experiences helping my wife with her craft show displays. We were looking to make some displays for her first few shows that would show off her jewellery without spending a lot of money on the wood or plastic displays that everyone can find in craft equipment catalogues.

We were able to custom-make some jewellery displays using picture frames with the glass removed. We covered the cardboard frame backing with fabric matching our booth colour scheme, then added padding to give the surface a soft feel. Some hooks to hang the jewellery on and it made a neat display.

We also used tablecloths to cover the tables at our display booth. For our first show, we tried experimenting with handmade, custom-fitted coverings, but they proved to be too fussy and complicated to get sitting just right on the tables. The tablecloths were reasonably-priced, attractive and were already designed to cover tables!

These were just a couple of ways that my wife and I were able to create some attractive displays for our first shows, without spending hundreds of dollars on displays which might not have met our needs.