How to Make a Purse Hanger

Imagine you are dining in a fine restaurant, the worst problem is where to keep your purse or handbag. Obviously, you don't want to hold it on your lap or place it on the floor. Also, there are cases of purse thefts. In such a situation, a purse hanger is what you need. It is a small tool with an utmost benefit. With a purse hanger, use it on the edge of a table and hang the purse on the hook. This way, your purse remains within your reach. You can purchase attractive and functional purse hangers from anywhere in the market. They are available in a wide variety of styles and designs.

The material of purse hangers may be simple stainless steel to sterling silver or gold. Also, unique purse hangers studded with precious stones are available. The price of a simple purse hangers costs about $12-$20, while those of custom designed pieces may cost a few hundred to thousand dollars. In fact, you can select a purse hanger that matches your personality and style statement. What about the idea of making purse hangers on your own. Let's take a look at how to make a purse hanger.

Instructions to Make Purse Hangers

While speaking about women fashion and accessories, purse hangers or hooks are handy and stylish options. In order to make a simple functional purse hanger, you will require sturdy metal hook, super glue, cutter, file, plier and a small circular mirror (with metal border) to use as the head of the purse hanger. You can also opt for other head designs like animal prints and clear crystals.

Bend the metal to form a hook style, making sure that it has a wide table clearance. In simpler terms, the space between the two ends of the hook are wide enough to fit on any type of table. A standard purse hook available in the market has a table clearance of about 1.5 to 2 inches. Such a purse hanger cannot be used for hanging in tables that have 2.5 inch thickness. Hence, for increasing versatility of the purse hanger that you are making, keep the clearance width to about 2.5 inches.

Using super glue, fix the circular mirror at one end of the hook. Ensure that it will not fall off while hanging the purse. File the ends of the hook for making them smooth. With this, you have completed making your purse hanger hook. For checking, put the purse hook and hang your purse. If necessary, you can adjust the shape of the hook. Purse hangers can also be a unique personalized gift item. You can create custom-designed purse hangers, which can be a unique gift idea, that you can try out for your near and dear ones.. It can also be gifted separately or along with a purse. In the latter case, your friend will cherish your gift whenever she uses both the purse and the purse hanger.

You can purchase a correct size velour to keep your purse hanger in place. Put the purse hanger and keep it in your purse or handbag. Besides these simple purse hangers for using while dining in restaurants, there are also closet purse hangers, blank purse hangers and over the door purse hangers. Each of these purse hangers is used for the purpose of hanging purses in various applications. For example, a closet purse hanger helps in increasing the storage space in a closet, while an over the door purse hangers is secured in doors for systematic placing of purses.