Secure ladyfingers with a ribbon lightly tied around the cake (brown ribbon looks nice, but cream colored ribbon provides a lighter touch). (pastryaffair.com)
Lovely, memories of using pens to tighten the tapes, and my first car eating one of my fave Queen tapes, leaving me with brown ribbon everywhere! (blog.folksy.com)
They then covered the mini cotton reels with either embroidery thread or scraps of brown ribbon and secured them with the glue gun. (muminthemadhouse.com)