Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop: Technique: Techniques and Projects for Weaving with Wire

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The first attestations of the word mail are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: maille, maile, or male or other variants, which became mailye, maille, maile, male, or meile in Middle English. [15] In early medieval Europe "byrn(ie)" was the equivalent of a "coat of mail" I splurged and spent an extra two dollars on a great little tool to open jump rings. It’s a ring that slips onto your finger while you work. To open your jump rings properly, all you have to do is insert a jump ring into one of the slots and give it a twist!

a b c George Cameron Stone (2 July 1999). A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times. Courier Dover Publications. p.424. ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016 . Retrieved 18 February 2011.Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail, William Burgess & Baron De Cosson Chainmail was less expensive than plate armor and this is why it was used commonly by foot soldiers. In the real world, people see pictures of chain mail that look different from pictures of scale mail and pictures of plate mail, and they think that the old categories make sense. Learning that these distinctions are (or may be) illusory is rather like being told that, though you might have grown up thinking that slate-colored juncos were one kind of bird, and Oregon juncos another, and white-winged juncos a third, and gray-headed juncos a fourth, in fact—even though each form looks quite different from the others—they're all just one kind of bird whose correct name is "dark-eyed junco." But it bears noticing that, having established the unifying idea of the dark-eyed junco, modern bird guides proceed to point out the slate-colored variant, the Oregon variant, the white-winged variant, and the gray-headed variant. I found Chain and Bead Jewelry Geometric Connections by Scott David Plumlee ISBN 978-0-823033393-3 much better value for beginners with less weaves (as I said before the different weaves and clear visual guides are available on the net for free).

Stainless steel chainmail diving suit worn by Valerie Taylor". collections.anmm.gov.au . Retrieved 2020-10-29. So, I'm curious about the first attested objection to the term. How early is it, and who made it? What was the reason given, if any? Stone, G.C. (1934): A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms And Armor in All Countries and in All Times, Dover Publications, New York Richardson, T. (2011). "Armour in England, 1325–99". Journal of Medieval History. 37 (3): 304–320. doi: 10.1016/j.jmedhist.2011.06.001. S2CID 162329279. Several patterns of linking the rings together have been known since ancient times, with the most common being the 4-to-1 pattern (where each ring is linked with four others). In Europe, the 4-to-1 pattern was completely dominant. Mail was also common in East Asia, primarily Japan, with several more patterns being utilised and an entire nomenclature developing around them.Large-linked mail is occasionally used as a fetish clothing material, with the large links intended to reveal – in part – the body beneath them. One recent critic of "chain mail," Hugh Knight, The Play of the Axe: Medieval Pollaxe Combat (2009), offers this discussion of the topic in a glossary entry for mail: Of mail there are two sorts, viz. chain and plate mail. Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it, the whole exhibiting a kind of net work, with circular meshes, every ring separately rivetted; this kind of mail answers to that worn on the ancient breast-plates, whence they were denominated loricæ hammatæ, from the rings being hooked together.