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Thursday, 30 May 2013

chain maille

Another masterpiece of a title there.  I don't know if you remember I went to a class to learn to do chain maille recently?  We learnt the Byzantine weave and I made a silver bracelet.  I bought some more 1mm wire after the Josephine Knot class the other week and got to work.

I bought some copper wire and used my gizmo to make the coils before snipping them apart to make the jump rings.  SO much quicker than the jump ring maker we used in class.  I'd also bought some brass wire and started making jump rings with that first, but I didn't check I was using the right mandrel and they turned out too big.  I didn't have enough brass wire to start again, so I need to find a weave with 5.5mm ID jump rings!


I've been wearing the copper and silver bracelets together and I love them.  I'd have loved a brass one too!  I've ordered some wire from ebay, and I also bought a new book - Classic Chain Mail Jewelry.  Now I can't wait for my wire to turn up so I can tryout some new weaves!  







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9 comments:

  1. heart of charnwood30 May 2013 at 09:54

    You really do have your fingers in so many crafting pies Mrs, looks great. Hoping to see you Saturday? :o)

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  2. Anna30 May 2013 at 10:51

    J'adore !
    Même si ce n'est pas du Dior !
    Bises
    Anna

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  3. Kristy @ Quiet Play30 May 2013 at 10:55

    Beautiful! I bet you get lots of compliments on them too!

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  4. JoJo30 May 2013 at 13:22

    Nice job!!!!!

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  5. Kerryp7730 May 2013 at 18:53

    they are really very cool, theyt look great together and they look really tactile too.

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  6. Nancy Lee31 May 2013 at 05:29

    These look amazing! Well done!

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  7. Jane31 May 2013 at 06:36

    Ooh, can you do a twisted version with both colours? I imagine that would be quite nice too. Looks like you're having fun with it, which is the most important thing

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  8. Samantha31 May 2013 at 15:38

    I remember!!!

    Does the copper one make your arm go green?

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  9. Celtic Thistle31 May 2013 at 22:24

    They look great. Saw how you sneaked in that comment about buying another new craft book! It's number what on the list??

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