Attach the hard side of velcro on a piece of flat wood with the help of a staple gun and stick to the wall.
How to hang a rug on the wall with velcro.
Sew the fuzzy soft side of the velcro to your muslin strip and sew the muslin strip directly to the back of your rug with a whip stitch preferably using a carpet thread that matches a color in your rug.
Measure length of the rug you are hanging and go slightly shorter by about 1 8th inch for the length of the wood.
To hang your navajo rug use a 2 wide velcro just need the one sided grabby side and a strip of thin wood molding to adhere the velcro to.
First mark where you want the rug.
Staple the rough side of the velcro tape to the wood.
Measure and adhere the same length of velcro strip to the wood.
In order to hide the stitching use a thread that is close in color to the rug.
Velcro tape consists of two separate strips.
Repeat steps 1 4 if necessary to add more velcro in lines down the rug or around the sides.
Cut a piece of thin wood to match the width of the rug.
Attach the fuzzy side to muslin fabric and then to the back of your rug.
Mark where the screws will be inserted and drill holes.
Then guide your needle carefully through the rug fibers.
Slide the board into the pocket.
This method can be used on heavy weight rugs with success and without causing damage to the rug.
Put the top of the rug there and put a push pin or command strip there.
The hook tape and the loop tape.
Cut the board so it is smaller than the width of the tapestry.
Using velcro to hang your area rug on the wall is currently the method preferred by many museums including the textile museum.
Use the velcro method to hang a rug as a tapestry on a wall.
Get a 2 inch wide velcro.
Fold the sides of the tapestry back and screw.
Mount the wood to the wall using a drill and screws and attach the velcro together to hang the rug.