Creative Ways to Display Antique Cookie Cutters? Good Questions

Q: I have a large and growing collection of antique cookie cutters sitting in bowls and bags around my kitchen. I don't use them too often and would love to display them in the kitchen or in my apartment.

What are some neat ways to exhibit cookie cutters?

Sent by Jess

Editor: Jess, lucky for you — another reader asked this same questions a couple years ago, and there were some great ideas:

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Comments (7)

I think a peg board would be really cool, with the background painted black or a dark color. Also a cork board maybe, and those T pins to hang them on. If you could find a nice one, maybe one of those over-the-door shoe holders on the pantry door would be nice, then you could group them by type/shape/season.

What about stringing them up and hanging them from the ceiling or walls like a garland? Or using S hooks to turn them into insta-ornaments and hanging them on an all-season branchy tree? Or even using the S hook thing to hang them from a vertical chain from the ceiling? That would look cool.

It would take some doing to mount them properly, but displaying them in a shadow-box frame (or a series of them) could be nice

Why not try using a jewelry storage piece? I imagine they could look cool hanging from a tree or stand:

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I have sugars and flours in Anchor Hocking glass jars lined up on my counter, because easy access just makes my baking so much easier, and one of the jars holds only the antique cookie cutters. Each time I use one, they go back in a different order and new ones are facing front, so it's an ever changing display.

Hang them on your windows (1 per window), like you would hang a stained glass piece, for decorations- switch them out for the appropriate season/holiday.

I've been thinking about this, too. Each Christmas during my childhood, my great-aunt and great-uncle would give us a hand-made cookie cutter (hand-soldered and hand-shaped by great uncle in his workshop) and a batch of impossibly thin, impossibly crisp, dragee-decorated cookies (made in enormous batches by my great-aunt). The cutters are too special to hide away in a plastic box, which is where they are now.

I've been thinking about hanging a swag of fishing line loaded with tiny bulldog clips around or across my kitchen window. That way, I could easily pick a cutter off the line when I'm ready to use it.