How to Make Folio-Style Scroll Covers

At the request of a friend, I'm doing a quick step-by-step tutorial on making scroll covers - something any kingdom desperately needs!

Scroll covers are basically just decorative protective folios used when giving out award scrolls at court. You ARE supposed to return them to your barony or kingdom once you manage to do whatever you intended with your scroll.

Not this.

New reigns and local baronies could definitely stand to be given a good stack of scroll covers, so if you have spare fabric, cardboard, a hot glue gun, and about 1/2 an hour, please consider donating.

What you'll need:

• Scrap fabric, preferably thick
• Cardboard or foam core
• A hot glue gun
• Felt
• Ribbon or other material for laces (optional)

Start by cutting out your cardboard. Assuming most award scrolls are about 8"x10" or 8.5"x11"***, you'll probably want to do two 10"x13" pieces. 

This is not two 10x13 pieces.

Cut the fabric so there is at least an inch of edging around the cardboard. If you're making two 10"x13" pieces of cardboard, the fabric will be 22"x28".  You'll also want juuuuust a little extra on the length, because you won't lay the cardboard pieces exactly next to each other. Leave a little space between them so the folio will fold closed when it's completed.

*** I've been told that in other areas, scrolls can be 11"x14" on average, so if you have the materials to make a larger folio, please do so!

Lay everything out to get a sense of what you're doing. 

Next, get your gun.

This was a $4 glue gun from Michael's. Save up for the good one if you plan to hot glue a lot of things. This one's kind of a pain in the ass.

Add glue dots to the eight corners of the cardboard pieces, and press them down into place on the fabric.

Next, cut squares into the corners of the fabric. 

I know, weird, but just stick with me here.

Fold over the shorter edges of the fabric onto the cardboard and glue it into place.

Now, fold the corner of the length edge so it's a diagonal, and glue it down to itself. 

This is so, when you fold down the longer edges, you have what looks like a "seam", just in case it shows when you're all done. There shouldn't be any raw edges of the fabric showing on the finished product this way.

Make sense?

Cool. Glue down the long edges now.

Now you have to cut out a square of felt slightly smaller than the above square. Have trouble cutting good squares out of fabric? MEEEEE TOOO.

However, this is a donated item, not my magnum opus, and we're going for efficient, not perfect. 

At this point, if you want to add laces to tie it closed, go ahead and do that. You'll want to glue them down on the short (width) edges, dead center.

I can't seem to FIND my ribbon, so it'll be an addition I make later. It's much easier to put it on BEFORE the felt, though. 

And finally, glue that felt down. I would personally put some glue not just around the edges, but on the face of the cardboard as well, just to stop it all from bunching up.

And that's it! 

I hope this helps, and I hope to see a lot of really awesome scroll covers making the rounds soon! 

If you find my AOA scroll in your folio, please return it, because I've forgotten it there.

...And if you currently HAVE a scroll cover, please return it to your barony. ;)

(AWWWWWW) YIS,

Ciosa