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Step 9Covering the scabbard in fabric
19. Cut scabbard fabric. If you know from the outset that you want the velvet scabbard look, simply don't paint it with a wood grain and leave the gilded filigree off until the appropriate forthcoming step. When covering your scabbard in fabric, make sure the fabric isn't so thick as to preclude the reapplication of the filigree when you are finished. I happened to have a scrap of bright scarlet cotton velvet lying around but was barely able to replace the filigree. I decided to use it anyway and plow ahead. Though I eventually muscled it back on, anything thicker (like leather) would not be conducive to this exercise. So, without further ado, cut your scrap of fabric with plenty of overlap.
20. Using the spray adhesive, coat the scabbard and the wrong (or inside) side of the fabric. Carefully place the scabbard down in the adhesive with plenty of extra on all sides. Try to be careful about how much stickiness you get on your fingers or you will find yourself having trouble later when trying to manipulate the fabric.
21. Carefully fold the first side just over the halfway point on the back of the scabbard. You can tell the back of the scabbard by which is your dominant sword hand. If you're a righty, you would wear your sword on the left side of your body. The part of the scabbard that is on the inside (and therefore touches your body) is now the 'back' side. Opposite for lefties, of course. Using your sewing scissors (regular scissors will prove next to useless for fabric), cut the excess fabric off. This doesn't have to look great as this edge will be covered by the opposite side. Use your fingers to smooth the wrinkles along the curves.
As a note: it would probably behoove you to start the first fold on the inside curve, as you will have to cut the fabric a bit to ease it around the curve. This cut could then be covered by the ample fabric gathered up on the outside of the curve in the next two steps. I, then, did this backward in my haste.
20. Using the spray adhesive, coat the scabbard and the wrong (or inside) side of the fabric. Carefully place the scabbard down in the adhesive with plenty of extra on all sides. Try to be careful about how much stickiness you get on your fingers or you will find yourself having trouble later when trying to manipulate the fabric.
21. Carefully fold the first side just over the halfway point on the back of the scabbard. You can tell the back of the scabbard by which is your dominant sword hand. If you're a righty, you would wear your sword on the left side of your body. The part of the scabbard that is on the inside (and therefore touches your body) is now the 'back' side. Opposite for lefties, of course. Using your sewing scissors (regular scissors will prove next to useless for fabric), cut the excess fabric off. This doesn't have to look great as this edge will be covered by the opposite side. Use your fingers to smooth the wrinkles along the curves.
As a note: it would probably behoove you to start the first fold on the inside curve, as you will have to cut the fabric a bit to ease it around the curve. This cut could then be covered by the ample fabric gathered up on the outside of the curve in the next two steps. I, then, did this backward in my haste.
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