Display Risers

© by Rena Klingenberg; all rights reserved

I make display risers for my jewelry booth very cheaply and easily - using folding easels, empty jewelry display trays, and a bit of non-skid shelf liner.

Display risers make all the difference in
getting your jewelry up where it can be seen,
and making your booth look more professional.

When I first switched over to my modular jewelry display setup, I couldn't figure out a way to elevate and angle my trays in my booth for visual interest.

Without some sort of display risers, they all just laid flat out on the table.

And I wanted to make sure that whatever I used for risers to elevate and angle the trays would be compact enough to fit inside my two aluminum jewelry tray cases - without requiring another bin or box to store and carry them.

In a brainstorming session with my mom - a craft projects guru who can always solve this kind of challenge - we came up with this neat, simple, and very compact way to achieve what I wanted:

easels for making jewelry display tray risers

We started with a folding acrylic easel
(from Rio Grande Jewelry Supply), opening it up
and turning it upside down into an A-shape.

Then we turned an empty jewelry tray upside down (after I removed one of my necklace easels from the tray), and created a "ramp" by propping up the back end of the tray on the top of the acrylic easel.

The bottom surface of the tray faces up, to create a nice, flat surface:

We cut a piece of rubbery non-skid shelf liner
(available in big rolls at home improvement stores)
to fit over the bottom of the tray.

Now I can stack two jewelry display trays on top of the upturned slanted tray:

The easel can be opened to any angle
to make the display ramp as steep as you like;
here it's at a very flat angle.

The non-skid shelf liner sticks the trays very firmly in place. I usually put a third display tray flat on the table top, at the bottom of the angled trays, for a nice cascade effect.

An expanse of slanted tray displays, butted up beside each other, is very striking:

It's so easy for my customers to see and concentrate on
my jewelry, because it just pops out of the displays -
and the displays never distract the eye.

This system does exactly what displays should do - it showcases the jewelry perfectly, while fading into the background.

And I'm thrilled to have such a compact solution for display risers to elevate my trays up off the tabletop.

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Learn how my modular jewelry show display sets up in just 30 minutes.

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