| This is actually a bit of a tale of sadness that brought this to life. Shortly after having finished the coif (and shortly after beginning gloves... which are still far from completion. I'm still recovering back into chainmailing as I write this), I was laid off from my job. I fell into a pit of not wanting to do pretty much any chainmailing for a good 4 or so months. After a long while (and a gathering or two with other chainmaillers in Winnipeg), someone going by the name of "Sasandria" showed me a pile of different chainmail samples. Seeing an awesome opportunity to practice new weaves, I lept at it with a mess of stainless steel rings obtained from The Ring Lord (didn't want to use galvanized... figured it might be too weak at 18-gauge). I separated all of the types of weaves into various "families", so they would remain in small connections that I could attach to my keys to play with every so often (as seen in the remaining pictures). This is one of the few chainmail pages that will continue to be updated as time goes by, and I make more weaves to add to this. Well... at least the following pictures will be updated. Debatable whether I'll bother with the one to the right, unless it goes through a drastic change. Note: I take no credit for inventing these weaves (unless stated to have been invented by me in another chainmail page here, such as Wilbert weave). I'm just making samples of them. |
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| 'True european' family - from left to right: European 4-1 European 4-1 with scales European 4-1 with scales (no spaces) European 4-1 wrong way European 4-1 on a bias European 6-1 |
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| 'Modified european' family - from left to right: Gridlock Elfweave Alienmaille Interwoven 4-1 Dwarfmaille |
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| 'Full-Persian' family - from left to right: One and a half persian Lobster tail Flat full persian Full persian 6-1 B8FP (box ate full persian) Full persian 8-1 grizzly |
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| 'Half-Persian' family - from left to right: Half persian 3-1 One and a half HP 3-1 GSG (great southern gathering) Double half persian 3-1 Half persian 4-1 Half persian 3+1 in 1 Half persian 6-1 |
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| 'Japanese' family - from left to right: Japanese 4-1 Steppingstones Japanese 8-2 cubic Japanese 6-1 Origami |
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| 'Round' family - from left to right: Boxchain Roundmaille Byzantine Turkish roundmaille Trizantine Inverted roundmaille Captive inverted roundmaille |
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| 'Orbital' family - from left to right: Thunderbolt Power line Baelrog's barb wire Turkish orbital |
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| 'Multiple ring size' family - from left to right: Dragon's tail Helm chain This is not water This is not food Solar eclipse Scherzo Dragonscale |
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| 'Spiral' family - from left to right: Spiral chain 4-1 Jacob's ladder Jens pind linkage (JPL) Jens pind linkage 4 (JPL 4) Jens pind linkage 5 (JPL 5) Sick chops Inverted spiral |
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| 'Simple random' family - from left to right: Foxtail Shaggy weave RSD (rhino snorting drano) Tomato sandwich Spinal weave Drunken Rhinos |
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| 'Complex random' family - from left to right: Backbone Beez to butterflies Persian dragonscale Bore worm Viperscale Wilbert weave |
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