I appreciate how thorough you are with telling us how exactly to do this
type of Chainmail. My only issue is how you keep picking it up to put in
the loops. It makes it hard to see how you are doing it. Not trying to be
rude or anything, it is just the angle on the camera was a bit off. Thank
you for sharing your knowledge.
Hello,I just wanted to say thank you, of all the tutorials out there, yours
has been the best I’ve watched so far. Its helped me to get a start on
hopefully being able to start making some good dragonscale jewelry
I wish people would make maille coats with rings that tiny. All of the
original maille I’ve seen in the backrooms of museums have had tiny rings
like that, but seems like modern reproductions for reenactment use only
manage 4 in 1 with rings more than 1cm across.
Getting real riveted maille is pretty easy now though fortunately, but can
be insanely expensive.
Instead of flipping it over to taper it, couldn’t you start the first end
with a taper and increase to the correct width? O would it look funny? Good
tut, but I think your camera person had too much coffee before
filming…lol. It was a little had to follow and see what you were doing at
times. I usually find your videos easy to follow, but this one not so much.
I missed some details in the instructions. I’ll have to watch a few more
times….think I will save this one as a rainy day project.
What kind of metal are you using? I really want to make this in 925
sterling silver and real 24k gold plated rings, would that be possible on
the beadaholique web sight?
@HARSHIT POOJARI – I don’t remember exactly how long it took me. I do
remember that I worked on it off and on for several days. It’s also going
to vary A LOT from person to person depending on how fast you work. I think
it probably takes me about an hour per inch, but I’ve spoken to other
people who say that it takes them up to three or four hours per inch.
I’m not sure if I’ve been making mistakes or not but once i get down to
like the 5th or 6th row of large rings I keep having the weave get really
inflexible and impossible to get any small jumprings where they need to be
because it gets stiff and locked up i guess you could say. I’ve noticed
that looking on the back of the weave when it gets like that the small
rings on previous rows kind of look popped out of place, and I’ve tried
redoing it 3 times. Any advice on what you think might be happening and how
to fix it, please?
Megan, I don’t know is this is the place to ask this question, I thought
that since you are working with jump rings I would ask. I am new at making
jewelry and I am having problems getting jump rings to work. What I mean is
that if my jewelry catches on something the jump ring will open and my
jewelry will fall off. I’m thinking that I am using the wrong type of jump
ring. What would you recommend? I see here in this Dragonscale Chain Maille
(love this tutorial) you are using the artistic wire. I have bought
artistic wire to make things like eye pins and it will bend and come apart.
Help!!
Hello Megan do you have a colored picture diagram please. I watched for
hours and could not see what went where when. Help me please I am all
fingers, thumbs or something. Thank you in advance if you can help me.
This is beautiful. I love ur store, ur products & ur work, but I find it so
difficult to watch ur chain maille vids in particular when the camera is
moving around so much (I realise it’s because ur hands are covering the
work) while it’s zoomed in so far on the small pieces. I recommend having a
look at Luvlee Scrappin on Youtube – she shows how to set up super cheaply
& effectively so u can film from above ur hands. All she uses for her vids
is her iphone & they look good too. Best of luck.
I have made this weave many, many times. I prefer these rings sizes:
larger rings: 18 gauge, 6 mm inner diameter
smaller rings: 20 gauge, 4 mm inner diameter.
Both gauges in AWG, so 18 gauge is 1.02mm, and 20 gauge is 0.81 mm.
I have done wide chain of 4 large rings wide, and narrower chain of 3 large
rings wide. The narrower is very pretty, the wider is more bold, in your
face. Both take a long time, with many rings per inch.
Technique: Make this much easier on yourself. Pre-close all the small rings
and never weave them in. In the video, Megan complains about how it’s hard
to weave those small rings into place and get the pliers where they need to
be, so don’t bother. Pre-close the small rings. It’s easier and faster.
Look for a Dragonscale Speed Weaving Tutorial, which shows how to do this
with pre-closed small rings.
I tried this the other day and found a kinda easier way to do it, connect
the second row of three before attaching it, that way you do not have to do
the donting task of going inside the other rings and I skipped every other
third row with the connectors so make it more flexible. Your tutorial is
great though, just shared something that helped me
the pliers your using I can not find them any where I was only able to get
a pair of round needle nose and a pair of jewelers round nose pliers any
help out there?
if you can wrap your mind around it, it should be possible to close all the
large rings, even to weld them closed, each on their own. and then do the
whole weave just by adding the small rings, with 4 large rings going
through each small ring.
which means you could do it with silver and gold, and with the right
melting points, close all rings with welding.
Sorry to say this, but this camera angle totally spoils the video. :/ The
pattern is clearly visible only when it’s lying flat on the table… It is
either obscured by fingers, or it’s outside of view completely. A shame,
that.
oh this is so cool! I’m a novice and haven’t tried chain mail yet but
definitely getting rings tomorrow and giving this a go. It looks
complicated, it’ll take a lot of focus (at least for me lol) probably be a
14 hour project but it is worth it. Thank you for doing several rows step
by step, I’ll be watching this video over and over while I do it!
I wanted to have more color choices than the 4 colors Artistic Wire offers
(brass, copper, silver, black). The key it seems is to know the Aspect
Ratio (AR) of the rings that work. This is figured by ID (inner
diameter)/WD (wire diameter). I convert both to milimeters to find mine.
Most sources say to try to stay within +/-.5 of the AR when choosing rings.
Some extra play works for some patterns while others need to be pretty
precise. If you know the AR, you can size up and down pretty easily. When
ordering rings, you also have to pay attention to what guage standard was
used to form them. A 9/64″ (3.57mm) ID ring using AWG (american standard)
18ga wire is 1.02mm thick (3.5 AR), while a SWG (imperial standard) 18ga
wire is 1.22mm thick (2.9 AR) so you would be better off to choose 19ga SWG
wire which is 1.16mm thick (3.2 AR) to keep the AR within the accepted
range.
I plan to use a 14k gold wire. Do you recommend 1/2 hard wire or dead
soft?
How many rings were used for this project?
Would it get too fragile if I use the same mesurements but with aluminium
instead of copper rings ? :)
Beautiful bracelet but a little too hard for me to understand how to do
this.
I appreciate how thorough you are with telling us how exactly to do this
type of Chainmail. My only issue is how you keep picking it up to put in
the loops. It makes it hard to see how you are doing it. Not trying to be
rude or anything, it is just the angle on the camera was a bit off. Thank
you for sharing your knowledge.
Can you please give the i.d. and o.d. of the rings in mm? They are usually
sold this way as jewelers work in metric, not American standard. Thanks!
I recently got into chainmail and scale mail and i love the look of this
weave. Great tutorial, thanks for posting!
Terrific tutorial. Very clear and easy to follow. Great work!
Hello,I just wanted to say thank you, of all the tutorials out there, yours
has been the best I’ve watched so far. Its helped me to get a start on
hopefully being able to start making some good dragonscale jewelry
This shits too fancy, I’m gonna build my armour with a 4 in 1.
chainmale*
I wish people would make maille coats with rings that tiny. All of the
original maille I’ve seen in the backrooms of museums have had tiny rings
like that, but seems like modern reproductions for reenactment use only
manage 4 in 1 with rings more than 1cm across.
Getting real riveted maille is pretty easy now though fortunately, but can
be insanely expensive.
Instead of flipping it over to taper it, couldn’t you start the first end
with a taper and increase to the correct width? O would it look funny? Good
tut, but I think your camera person had too much coffee before
filming…lol. It was a little had to follow and see what you were doing at
times. I usually find your videos easy to follow, but this one not so much.
I missed some details in the instructions. I’ll have to watch a few more
times….think I will save this one as a rainy day project.
I would love to see this style weave used for a full mail shirt. Would
probably take a jillion years to make though.
Could you not just use one type of metal? I would think it would be looser,
but I have not done this before, so no haters please :P
Wat
What kind of metal are you using? I really want to make this in 925
sterling silver and real 24k gold plated rings, would that be possible on
the beadaholique web sight?
@HARSHIT POOJARI – I don’t remember exactly how long it took me. I do
remember that I worked on it off and on for several days. It’s also going
to vary A LOT from person to person depending on how fast you work. I think
it probably takes me about an hour per inch, but I’ve spoken to other
people who say that it takes them up to three or four hours per inch.
how many hours did it took you make the first dragon scaled chain you
showed us
If you had used a third color of wire rings for the “3 ring rows” it might
have been clearer …
Just a suggestion.
,akeing full chain mail probbly takes like a couple monthes or more
I’m not sure if I’ve been making mistakes or not but once i get down to
like the 5th or 6th row of large rings I keep having the weave get really
inflexible and impossible to get any small jumprings where they need to be
because it gets stiff and locked up i guess you could say. I’ve noticed
that looking on the back of the weave when it gets like that the small
rings on previous rows kind of look popped out of place, and I’ve tried
redoing it 3 times. Any advice on what you think might be happening and how
to fix it, please?
Megan, I don’t know is this is the place to ask this question, I thought
that since you are working with jump rings I would ask. I am new at making
jewelry and I am having problems getting jump rings to work. What I mean is
that if my jewelry catches on something the jump ring will open and my
jewelry will fall off. I’m thinking that I am using the wrong type of jump
ring. What would you recommend? I see here in this Dragonscale Chain Maille
(love this tutorial) you are using the artistic wire. I have bought
artistic wire to make things like eye pins and it will bend and come apart.
Help!!
+Peggy A Turpin Hi, I am sorry but we do not have any diagrams for this
weave. It is a challenging weave.
Hello Megan do you have a colored picture diagram please. I watched for
hours and could not see what went where when. Help me please I am all
fingers, thumbs or something. Thank you in advance if you can help me.
The finished product looks lovely but sooooo fiddly and time consuming.
This is beautiful. I love ur store, ur products & ur work, but I find it so
difficult to watch ur chain maille vids in particular when the camera is
moving around so much (I realise it’s because ur hands are covering the
work) while it’s zoomed in so far on the small pieces. I recommend having a
look at Luvlee Scrappin on Youtube – she shows how to set up super cheaply
& effectively so u can film from above ur hands. All she uses for her vids
is her iphone & they look good too. Best of luck.
tank you
There’s gotta be a better way. It will take 10,000 rings to make a
bracelet.
I have made this weave many, many times. I prefer these rings sizes:
larger rings: 18 gauge, 6 mm inner diameter
smaller rings: 20 gauge, 4 mm inner diameter.
Both gauges in AWG, so 18 gauge is 1.02mm, and 20 gauge is 0.81 mm.
I have done wide chain of 4 large rings wide, and narrower chain of 3 large
rings wide. The narrower is very pretty, the wider is more bold, in your
face. Both take a long time, with many rings per inch.
Technique: Make this much easier on yourself. Pre-close all the small rings
and never weave them in. In the video, Megan complains about how it’s hard
to weave those small rings into place and get the pliers where they need to
be, so don’t bother. Pre-close the small rings. It’s easier and faster.
Look for a Dragonscale Speed Weaving Tutorial, which shows how to do this
with pre-closed small rings.
I tried this the other day and found a kinda easier way to do it, connect
the second row of three before attaching it, that way you do not have to do
the donting task of going inside the other rings and I skipped every other
third row with the connectors so make it more flexible. Your tutorial is
great though, just shared something that helped me
Change to the metric system already!
the pliers your using I can not find them any where I was only able to get
a pair of round needle nose and a pair of jewelers round nose pliers any
help out there?
if you can wrap your mind around it, it should be possible to close all the
large rings, even to weld them closed, each on their own. and then do the
whole weave just by adding the small rings, with 4 large rings going
through each small ring.
which means you could do it with silver and gold, and with the right
melting points, close all rings with welding.
Wow I really like that. I’m really glad I watched your video
impressive
Sorry to say this, but this camera angle totally spoils the video. :/ The
pattern is clearly visible only when it’s lying flat on the table… It is
either obscured by fingers, or it’s outside of view completely. A shame,
that.
PLEASE UPLOAD VIDEO ON HOW TO MAKE COMPACT FRENCH ROPE CHAIN!!!! THERE ARE
NO TUTORIALS OUT THERE!!! PLEASE HELP! IS IT IN THE ADVANCED BOOK?????
its a girl xD
Nice
oh this is so cool! I’m a novice and haven’t tried chain mail yet but
definitely getting rings tomorrow and giving this a go. It looks
complicated, it’ll take a lot of focus (at least for me lol) probably be a
14 hour project but it is worth it. Thank you for doing several rows step
by step, I’ll be watching this video over and over while I do it!
Why would ANYONE dislike this video???
gudd gracias mamásita
I can’t imagine how long it takes to make it
gahhh only see is her hand!
jst get to the money!
very very nice
I wanted to have more color choices than the 4 colors Artistic Wire offers
(brass, copper, silver, black). The key it seems is to know the Aspect
Ratio (AR) of the rings that work. This is figured by ID (inner
diameter)/WD (wire diameter). I convert both to milimeters to find mine.
Most sources say to try to stay within +/-.5 of the AR when choosing rings.
Some extra play works for some patterns while others need to be pretty
precise. If you know the AR, you can size up and down pretty easily. When
ordering rings, you also have to pay attention to what guage standard was
used to form them. A 9/64″ (3.57mm) ID ring using AWG (american standard)
18ga wire is 1.02mm thick (3.5 AR), while a SWG (imperial standard) 18ga
wire is 1.22mm thick (2.9 AR) so you would be better off to choose 19ga SWG
wire which is 1.16mm thick (3.2 AR) to keep the AR within the accepted
range.
I just bought some 20 gauge copper and brass wire.
My question is, do you interlace four big rings into the small ones, or
three?