Sealable collars without buckles?

[ciphergoth]

I'm looking for ways of making a collar on which I can make a tamper-evident seal, such that you can't take off the collar without breaking the seal. I'd like it to be suitable for long-term wear.

My first thought was to take an ordinary fashion collar, and seal the buckle with sealing wax. The trouble with this is that buckles tend to catch long hair, especially when you sleep. So here's plan B: use a plain wide black satin ribbon, pin it shut with a couple of small safety pins, then put the sealing wax on the safety pins. But I worry the wax might be too brittle.

Any other ideas very welcome!

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and here's one I made earlier...

[suzerain.livejournal.com]

ok. firstly, I'm crap at html. so the link below is probably abysmal. apologies to all who actually understand HTML and want to take me out and shoot me right now.

anyhow. I made a ribbon collar with seal about a year ago for one girl, which seemed to work quite nicely, and the design could be switched over to leather or fabric quite easily.

it's a ribbon with spring eyelet fastening (might work better with a fabric cover with longer hair - the girl who wore this had short-ish hair). the fastening was sewn into place, and an embroidered eyelet was made in the ribbon, which meant that with the small holes in the fastening, a spiral copper wire seal could be drawn through the collar.

the wire in this one was sealed with a grain of solder and a jeweller's blowtorch (using an insulated aluminium plate to seat the wire on) took about 10 seconds to seal the wire in place, and was quite safe. (well, I've got steady hands)

only nagative comment was that it took ages to dry out after showers, and was worn a couple of times without trouble

so there you go, one practical suggestion.

I've scanned it twice, and stuck the images into a yahoo photos folder (only thing I can grab offhand.)

http://photos.yahoo.com/adrenochrome_hit

is the url to the main page... click on the "yahoo!" folder, and you'll find three photos lurking, one of laura's old cat, Sammy, that I did'nt even realise was still up there till about 15 mins ago, and the two new scans of the collar and a sample seal that I stuck onto it just to scan it.

hopefully, that'll work. if that link goes pear-shaped and you want to see how it came out, then I can happily email the images to people who ask :)

Suz
AKA J.G.Elmslie