Jewellery box for rings

The fleurs de lys on the lid make this one the perfect ring casket for my french baroque character. And as a countess needs a lot of jewelry (here I want to emphasize that it's highly recommended not to use real jewelry on liveroleplays and reenactments - after all, you don't want to have your decoration's material worth on your mind all the time!) it was high time for a box to store all the rings.

The manuals I found for that kind of jewelry boxes were completely insufficient, as the ingredients used (hair rollers or cotton-pad-covered cardboard) didn't give the look and functionality I intended. My experiment worked on first attempt: take some not too soft kind of foam (I used some from a outdoor seat cushion) and cut it exactly the size of your boxes inside dimensions.

Then mark horizontal lines at regular intervals, somewhere between 1,5 and 2,5 centimetres, and cut them to 2/3 of the foam depth so you get slits where you can insert your rings.

And as you will not want uncovered foam in your elegant jewellery casket, find some nice, non-slippery fabric, wide enough to stuff the raw edges under the foam and about twice the length of your piece. It works best to cut an ample strip of fabric and trim the excess. Start from the centre slit and tuck the centre fold of the fabric into it to the very bottom. Open the next slit slightly by putting the foam piece on the edge of a table, ease the slit slightly open and tuck the next fold. The important thing here is to allow enough fabric to keep the square shape of the foam edges (which will nicely hold your rings) instead of rounding them too much, but not have excess fabric forming bubbles on the surface. When you've finished both sides, secure the edges of the fabric on the back side with double-sided adhesive tape and also tape the complete block into the box. You should end up with something like this: