Okay, I guess I still had my chainmalle weaves (aka patterns)how to instructions posted on an old domain, but here they are… Depicting the European 4 in 1, 6 in 1, and 8 in 1 weaves, Oriental 4 in 1 and 6 in 1 weaves (these are really cool, time consuming, but cool). Also what was known as king’s maille, and the spiral weaves.

Take a look at Dakar’s Armory.

I’ll post my how-to’s for making the rings themselves. Not sure how the price of metal these days will impact this fascinating hobby. Although I did make a few thousand bucks selling them in bulk on eBay a while back over a year or so, the workload trying to actually turn a profit was enormous. I do have the 4 in 1 chainmaille shirt that I made from 14ga galvanized steel in storage, dang thing weighs around 50lbs! Have to dig that out sometime and get some pics.

Oh so true……

I didn’t think there would be any arguments on that one.

As the image states, what it lacks for in deflection is MORE than made up for in distraction.

Very easy on the eyes…

Here is a couple of images taken of an example of Oriental 6in1 chainmaille, this handy little dice bag sold like hotcakes in kit form.  As soon as I run across the .pdf I created for the construction of this I’ll post it as well.

Made from 3/8″ and 3/16″ galvenized steel rings.

Just some pics I took when I was producing chainmaille rings for sale and weaving part time.