Hi Jan! I see Chickadeez (and friends) on the list of pods making morsbags each month. I always wonder about pods I don’t know – how are you getting on, where you give bags away, and so on, so I’m delighted to hear from you!
Clothes line display was my first thought, like yours, but you need two firm supports to tie the ends to. If it rains and the supports are holding up the canopy the bags may get wet.
(If you’re displaying bags that you don’t want to give away, “specials” for instance, thread the clothes line through the handles. We have a set of display bags that spell out “morsbags.com” and often get asked for the one with a particular letter on – for someone’s initial, for example.
If the line goes through the handles a well-meaning helper can’t give one of the vital bags away, and no-one can help themselves.)
Bags on lines tend to flop and fold themselves – slip a bit of card inside if you want them to stay flat, take it out when giving the bag away and pop it in the next bag to be hung up.
I think it was Pol who made this display out of a large net – was it a curtain once? I think you attach the bags with big paper clips, or clothes pins would work too.
Rosie of Offcuts pod has a free-standing indoor clothes airer and I was going to post a link, but can’t find that particular type on sale now. This is a bit like it, but I’m sure anything of the sort would do, you’d just need to keep restocking it!
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/8505239
Later on I found a photo of it – left hand side of this photo –
If you have plenty of helpers nothing beats threading lots of bags on a person’s arms to display them. They can talk to the “customer” while he or she chooses their bag and it’s not hard to slide the bags to left or right over your linked hands to reach the bag they want.
I play a game of guessing which bag they’ll choose – nearly always a woman will pick something that matches what she’s wearing at the time and most men wonder what their wife / partner/ mum would like!
I made this tablecloth with curtain hooks sewn on it. I arrange the cloth so that the hooks are on the edge of the table and hang bags on them.
It’s OK-ish – works if the customers are a little way away but not good if there are a lot of people as only the front few are aware of the bags and they’re usually right up against the table if it’s crowded, so can’t see them anyway. It has the advantage that you can restock from behind the table if getting out is a problem – maybe the neighbouring table is very close and it’s a squeeze getting out front.
If all else fails, draped or folded bags can be laid on a table, simple!
Macs bags have a good combination here – lines and table.
They also have colourful information for people to read.
You’ll probably come across the phenomenon of “reverse guerilla-ing”. This is where someone helps themselves to bags on display, or bags that you were not intending to hand out yet. Maybe you hung a few bags outside the venue as an advertisement – when you go to get them back they’re gone. Well you were going to give them away anyway…. Always makes us laugh
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