Chain maille how-to

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2006/11/17 @ 4:59 pm
Category General

Here’s a great how-to for the novice chain mailer, covers designing and producing your own suit of armor – [via] – Link.

From the pages of CRAFT: Battle Chic – Craft a wardrobe of medieval armor with DIY chainmail. Download Sample PDF & digital edition or subscribe.

BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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8 Responses to Chain maille how-to

onebitpixel on November 17th, 2006 at 1:20 pm said:

Was the digital edition supposed to be a free (complete) preview of the craft magazine?

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philliptorrone on November 17th, 2006 at 1:28 pm said:

onebitpixel – if you’re a subscriber, yup.

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Oracle1729 on November 17th, 2006 at 2:24 pm said:

I subscribe to both magazines and access to the Digital editions works perfectly, they are a great complement to the magazines. I just have to force myself not to read the whole magazine online before I get the print version because I know I’ll enjoy it more in print .

I still haven’t received the t-shirt that was offered with Craft though. When do those go out?

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philliptorrone on November 17th, 2006 at 2:32 pm said:

Oracle1729 – they haven’t gone out yet, but i will check and see if we can post an ETA

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Oracle1729 on November 17th, 2006 at 2:47 pm said:

Thanks Phil. I’m not in a huge rush to get it, I was just worried since I had my magazine in hand and no shirt that something went wrong and I missed mine.

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Vrogy on November 17th, 2006 at 3:26 pm said:

I used to make maille all the time, I even tried making a lorica plumata once… scale woven into chain.

I wear this chainmail bracelet all the time- it’s woven on.
http://flickr.com/photos/vrogy/299701766/

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Cathaholic on November 17th, 2006 at 7:38 pm said:

Oh, by the way, if anyone is interested in making chainmail/chainmail products. The links are much better if they are sawed and not cut with wire cutters. It just works better, fewer snags and a bunch of other things. If you make your own mail then wrap a high strength wire around a dowell and cut it with a dremel or something. That’s what i did.

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swampy-uk on November 26th, 2006 at 5:42 am said:

If you want to experiment and try a load more patterns and weaves, check out http://www.mailleartisans.org/ as well.

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