Apparently I have taken it upon myself to knit another set of chainmail. This evening, I absolutely could not resist dropping this chunk (which at the moment is just about six inches across; this is just a subset of it) into my photo box. I find the proportion of rings at this wire gauge and diameter particularly pleasing for whatever reason.

  • Stache_@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 hours ago

    This looks so cool! Reminds me of an art class project I had in high school where we used different metal and rubber loops to make bracelets. Just sat there with two needle nose pliers and alternated rows, it was pretty cathartic! Almost like knitting in a way

  • Fallibilist@feddit.uk
    23·
    5 hours ago

    Technically it’s just called mail or mail-armor. Mail comes from Old French maille (“mesh, net”) therefore “mail” already denotes the interlinked-ring construction so adding “chain” is redundant.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Looks like the rings are designed specifically for this kind of work?

    Once each one’s ends are joined together, do they need to be glued or welded or something?

    • just2look@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      If you were actually going for historic accuracy, or planned to use it for armor then you would weld the rings. Generally people don’t weld them since it takes a lot of time and effort. They are just bent closed.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      5·
      8 hours ago

      I used to have a friend who would make chainmail. He had long coils of steel which looked like springs but I don’t think they were actually springy. He’d nip off individual rings from them, weave them into whatever he was currently making, then bend them closed.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        When I was a kid, soda pop cans had tearaway tops that would separate from the cans when opened. There was sort of a ring-shape on one end of that piece. SCA people would collect those by the hundreds or thousands and use them to make mail armor suits and stuff. It looked surprisingly good, and since it was just thin aluminum, was very light. Very good for running around on a hot summer day recreating the Battle of Hastings or whatnot.