Chainmail - Blog Posts

Been a long time since I've drawn my original OC, the Platinum Knight

Realized I never posted these on here so here’s more jrwi chainmail! Albatrio bracelets!!!

I made them back in april - thought it’d be cool to make bracelets based on the color schemes of gillion, jay, and chip! It was very fun even though I had to completely redo gillion’s twice to change colors and their order 🐟

Had the need to do A Project yesterday so I made a fake prosthetic finger for my chip cosplay

It’s not terribly comfortable (hoping that wearing it for a long time won’t be too bad) and doesn’t have a great range of motion (the picture at the end shows the most I can bend it) but it stays on by itself and I think it turned out really cool! :D

Oh, you have a girlfriend? That's nice, but do you have about 1 ½ kgs of chainmail in your pocket?

CLOAKS

Reason 78: CLOAKS.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5RnBO48oJ4)

So I've been working with chainmail for about a year and a half now and I've gathered knowledge on it:

- making maile isn't for the faint of heart: there's about 1000 rings in my work, and that's SMALL compared to a shirt or coif (hood)

- stained fingers and the smell of metal are normal

- there's more to it than "metal rings go together"; there's math involved, mainly the ratio of the inside diameter of the ring and the diameter of the wire used, which impacts what patterns can be used; there's a lot of uses of triangles, especially with seams; and a whole lot of counting and checking fit

- it's like knitting in some concepts, but it's different in most. Mainly, you're having to handle metal rings that, if dropped, disappear into the aether for a couple of months.

- small and tight doesn't immediately mean it's a good idea. It just means you'll be gaining length at a slower speed.

Too fricking cute😍

Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)