The Black Post
Black Rope Stanchion Rental in Ottawa
Black posts hung with 5 ft velvet rope — the one that holds a line without appearing in the photograph, so the branding or the set stays the thing people are looking at.
Specifications
| Post | Black post |
|---|---|
| Rope colours | Red, black, white, dark green, pink, navy, blue, green, purple |
| Rope length | 5 ft |
| Rope material | Velvet |
| Rope connection | Carabiner clip |
| Dimensions | 12.6 × 12.6 × 35 in (32 × 32 × 89 cm) |
| Base weight | 8.3 kg (~18 lb) |
| Rental period | From 1 day to a month+ |
Price is per stanchion, post and gold-end rope together in a single figure. Tell us how far the run has to reach and the number of days it stays up. How we quote →
Choose your rope colour
The end caps are matched to the post they hang from — gold ends on gold and black posts, silver ends on polished chrome. Every one of the nine gold-end ropes hangs on this post.
Red
Gold ends
Black
Gold ends
White
Gold ends
Dark green
Gold ends
Pink
Gold ends
Navy
Gold ends
Blue
Gold ends
Green
Gold ends
Purple
Gold ends
Why choose the black post
Stepping back is the whole point of this post. Against a dark floor or a dressed set it more or less vanishes, handing the job of carrying the look to the rope and to whatever is branded behind it. Choose it when you want the crowd control to go unnoticed and the branding to do the opposite.
Which is why it ends up as the standard on activations, film and television, conference floors and festival sites — places where a lane has to be there without turning up in shot. The matte surface also takes fingerprints and handling marks in its stride, something a polished column never does over a multi-day build.
All nine gold-end ropes work on it, exactly as they do on the gold post, so the colour call belongs to the rope rather than being forced by the post. And under mixed lighting it photographs cleanly — no hotspots bouncing back at the lens.