Adding Rivets and Buttons
Use a hole punching tool to punch a small hole where you want the rivet. The tool tip should look like it will punch a hole that is slightly smaller than the rivet nail. | |
The rivet has two parts, the nail and the cap. | |
If you are placing rivets through only two layers of fabric or very light weight fabric you may need to use a pair of dikes (cutting plyers) to shorted the rivet head slitely, but this is usually not neccessary--it depends on your rivets as well. | |
Place the nail of the rivet in the hole and push the cap over it. | |
If you use a riveting tool like this one place the unindented peice of the tool under the nail and the other peice of the tool over the cap and hammer down on it with a hammer until the rivet is snug. Make sure the cape is centered in the tool. You should just be able to follow the directions that come with the tool if you have a differetn kind. | |
Double check to make sure all the rivets are snug. If they are loose you should put the tool back on and hammer a little harder. The finished product should look like this. | |
If you can't find rivets or don't want to use them you can also use tight zigzag tacking stitches they work just as well in most cases. | |
Jean buttons are extremely simple to put on. You simply press the nail though the fabric in the desired location and push the button on. Then you lay the button down flat on a hard surface and hammer the nail in place. You might want to trim a bit of the nail off with cutting plyers because it sometimes pockes through the button face, or at least hammer carefully | |
If you can't find jean buttons you can find some nice metal ones that look just as good that can be sewn on manually. |
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