Hanging systems for tradtional picture rail

Just moved into our new office and it has a traditional old picture rail. We are wanting to hang pictures and stuff using the rail – can anyone recommend any decent suppliers of modern/contemporary hanging sytems that will work with the existing picture rail.

Cheers.

Picture hook and cord?

I want a modern looking system – I have een some with modern fixings and nylon cables etc but can’t find any online.

Loads of companies will make you up stainless braided wires with looped ends made to your requirements. Just use these with some silver picture rail hooks.

By hanging systems, what else is there for old picture rails other than dangling stuff from it?

Talk to your local picture framer, they might have something. I think the challenge is to find away of blending a sharp, modern system with the hooks that hang over trad picture rails, as the those hooks tend to look a bit quaint. You could maybe fix a more contemporary hanging rail along the bottom edge of the existing picture rail so that you don’t have a funny clash of old and new.

I’m wracking my brains as I’ve had to source stuff in the past and i forget where from now, can work out pretty pricy, but once you find the right sources it gets cheaper.

whoop! blessed be the man who never deletes his emails

I sourced the hooks and rails and other fancy gubbins from here

http://artestuff.com/

But because I used miles of cable (I think where was a couple of hundred pictures to hang) I got my cables from here – http://www.zincomids.co.uk/home.asp

The mix and match approach might not work as well for you though

Cheers – will take a proper look at those tomorrow.

Just had a proper look – that is EXACTLY what I was wanting – many thanks for that. 🙂 Singletrack comes up trumps again.