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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes  Stitch and sew projects  Textile resources for preschool and home       How to make a Tudor collar ruff from card Using skin friendly interfacing fabric, folds of card can be glued to one side and fastened around the neck with hook and loop tape. This provides a no sew way to create role play Tudor collars. Buy gathered fabric collars on amazon.co.uk       Resources needed  3 sheets of A4 white card  hoop and loop tape  access to a glue gun  tape measure & ruler  scissors, clear contact adhesive  thick interfacing fabric / material This collar we made was for an 8yr old, used 5 sections of folds and measured 35cm in length.   Instuction guide for making your Tudor collar 1. Take a neck measurement 2. Using your neck measurement cut a strip of interfacing  fabic 2cm wide and two pieces of hook and loop tape. Our strip measured 35cm in length.  3. Fold the A4 sheets of card in half lengthways and cut   4. Fold the card consertina style along the short width, back and fowards on itself 5. Heat up a glue gun and lay a thick line of glue along the fabric strip. Leave a 2cm gap at each end and then position the card folds in an upright position along the strip. Join each section together to keep the ruff folds together.