Installation of eyelets on curtains 🥝 clothes, do-it-yourself fabric

Cringles are mostly used for decorative purposes, in particular to give a neat appearance to the holes, to prevent shedding of fabric. This type of fastening is considered the most reliable in cases of work with both paper and fabric. Not everyone needs to use the grommets, because the factory fixtures and tools used to install them are quite expensive. Therefore, it is much more convenient to use the services of a wizard or try to attach the grommet on an awning or any other material yourself. Today we will learn how to install grommets without tools at home, because it is sometimes difficult to find even a workshop wherever they are available.

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Features of the application and installation of eyelets

How to install or replace the eyelets themselves? They are used on fabrics and paper. With their help, they fill out all kinds of functional holes on notebooks, labels, cards, labels, album sheets. When it is necessary to fasten very few sheets of paper, the grommet is most often used, since it solves two issues at the same time - fastens the sheets, fixes them.

If you correctly install such a device, then it will look much more neat than a more familiar stapler or glue. The main problem faced by everyone who decides to install the grommet on their own is a wide variety of product diameters.

It is not enough just to buy a hand press, because under the eyelets with each diameter you need to choose your own nozzle. Given the variety of shapes and diameters, only one conclusion suggests itself that you have to fully equip the installation press, which is not cheap. That is why many are interested in how to put grommets without tools using improvised devices.

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How to install grommets using improvised tools?

In addition to a special press, you can use forceps. Of course, they allow you to perform not so wide operations, but they are quite suitable for installing products with a small diameter.

Important! You can buy a set of punches in a hardware store, but even this will not completely solve the problem with the largest diameters most often used for sewing curtains and heavy curtains.

For convenience, the diameter and dimensions of the eyelets are specially marked. So, each product consists of a leg and a hat, while the length of the leg directly depends on the thickness of the material that needs to be pierced.

Important! This value is designated by the letter L. The diameter of the stem itself, respectively, of the hole, which we obtain in the end, by the letter D.

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Tools and materials required for installation

Before you consider in detail how to install the eyelets on your own clothes, prepare the following materials from the list:

• Eyelets of the required diameter.
• Marker or pencil.
• Ruler.
• Stationery knife.
• A piece of linoleum or a rubber mat.
• A flat piece of iron.
• Heavy hammer.
• Element for flattening the legs of the product.

As we have already found out, eyelets can differ in diameter, in fact, their size depends on this parameter.To install the smallest parts, use steel rods with rounded ends or balls from bearings. Metal rods with a conical end are great for this purpose, the main thing is that they are larger in diameter than the grommets.

Important! With the help of a lathe and iron rods with different diameters, a skilled craftsman can make a whole set that is useful for installation. It is not difficult to round the ends of the rods on the machine and grind them in the shape of a cone.

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Self-installation of eyelets

It’s easy to install grommets with your own hands, you just need to clearly follow this instruction:

• Make markings, mark on the fabric or paper the places where the holes will be. To make measurements more accurate, you can use the ruler.

Important! To make it easier to work with the thickest materials or paper if the hole is too close to the edge, it is better to use a hole punch.

• Do not rush to pierce the holes, first carefully compare whether the holes of the eyelet and hole punch converge. So that the eyelets do not fall out in the future, you need to make sure that the diameter of the hole punch is smaller.

Important! Holes of small diameter can be made using a clerical knife or an ordinary awl. If you are working with a fabric, then before piercing the holes, you should treat the puncture site with adhesive.

• Carefully insert the grommet into the finished hole so that the hat is on the front side, the leg goes on the wrong side.
• To prevent damage to the surface on a substrate designed to reduce noise, lay an iron sheet or a metal ruler.
• Set the grommet paper on the backing so that the leg sticks up.
• Insert the flattening device into the leg, having previously cut or opened its edges.
• Hit the tool inserted into the leg as hard as possible with a hammer.

Important! This installation option is considered the most simple, but if this is your first time encountering this job, then be patient. First do the same on a small piece of unnecessary fabric. If you adapt a little using similar tools, then in the future you can easily fix the grommets on your own, because this process requires accuracy, care, and skill.

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Useful tips for installing eyelets (video)

So we answered the question of concern to us, how to put the grommets on the clothes without the installer having special tools. But as it turned out, this process is quite painstaking, requiring special attention. Before starting work, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with the useful tips of specialists:

• Do not forget that it is much easier to install eyelets with the smallest height.
• The easiest way to work is with products made of stainless non-ferrous metals. How to identify them? You can use a magnet to which steel eyelets will stick instantly.
• It is more difficult to work with steel devices, because in order to hammer them, it is necessary to exert enormous force. And in such situations, they are often deformed.
• Do not install the grommets on a rubber surface, as they may break if they miss or fail.
• You can install the products on a lead plate, that's just enough for a short time. You have to use a gas burner to heat the plate so that it is aligned and continue to work.

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Stock footage

Perhaps you will quickly learn on your own the method that describes how to install grommets without tools on fabric or paper. But if you decide to do this on an ongoing basis, then it is more reasonable to purchase special equipment in the future that allows you to install a large number of eyelets in the shortest possible time.