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Show SUGGESTIONS ON HANGING PLATES Once you get the hang of it. the job of decorating a wall with plates is easy. First of all. don't , risk breaking the plates by experimenting ex-perimenting with them. You will need to experiment until you've worked out a good arrangement, so cut paper patterns of the plates, exact shapes and sizes, and pin them up on the wall this way and that until they form the design you want. To hang the plates ! themselves, use drapery hooks, three of them to a plate. Hook each hook over the edge of the plate with the pin end to the front. Tie the hooks together with cord or pic ;ure wire pulled taut to form a triangle. Hang the plate on a nail on the wall from the apex of the triangle. Use those pretty plates you have 'way up there on that top shelf. They can do so much good decorating for you so inexpensively above a fireplace, a sideboard, server or drawer chest or beside a door. |