Chain Maille

Created by Julie Mistaria.

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A captured D20. It has found its forever home north of Seattle.

Captured D6. I would like to make more of these. I have even a decent supply of D6's... This pair of earrings are in their forever home in Bremerton.

Exploring the mix of my first love and latest love: beads and chain maille. This is a prototype design. For technical reasons. Sure is pretty to look at though! I have modified the design to be better (technically). Not sure if these are going to be made for purchase... these take a long(ish) time to create.

I purchased a dragonfly kit to make dragonflies for our garden sculpture, but darned if I couldn't be good and follow the directions to make more dragonflies. Thus, I made a few pairs of earrings with the 'wings' from the kit. Hence, Dragonfly Wing Earrings!

Not just jewelry! This is a sun catcher. Using bottle bits that have been cut on the bandsaw and then fired in the kiln. Coke bottle "top" with a brown glass ring made from a Trader Joe's beer bottle neck.

Scale maille... beads...so much awesome! More chain maille on our Facebook.

Figured out a design to capture our glass rings made from bottles. Design had to be flexible to accommodate the fact that each ring is a different size (relevant to the sensitive aspect ratio of chain maille weaves, not relevant in the context of being able to use them to make jewelry). This is another weave that has already  been defined by others in many variations. I discovered my own weave from a month's worth of trial and error work.

Pictured below the green glass ring, is a free form piece of art glass I created some time ago. Now it is illustrating the flexibility of this weave.

I am self taught with my chain maille. I have read a number of tutorials for the foundational weaves and invariably, I strike out on my own. What I am showing here I figured out how to do on my own - and I'm sure there are tutorials somewhere in the world as I will hardly claim "original design" but I will definitely claim my discovery was original and via my own understanding of basic chain maille principles.