Chainmail is a defensive armor made of metal rings threaded into each other. The lightness and flexibility of the chain mail allowed the warrior to be quite mobile. It went out of use due to the spread and improvement of firearms, but even today chain mail is widely used in serious adult games when recreating military historical events.
It is necessary
Pliers, wire cutters, cylindrical wire winding object (felt-tip pen), wooden board, nails, hammer
Instructions
Step 1
Use stainless steel wire to weave chain mail. The hardness and elasticity of the material is important. A wire that is too soft can start to crumble under its own weight, and an excessively hard wire will not allow biting off the wire - you will have to cut it, which is too laborious. Choose a wire with a thickness of 1-3 mm.
Step 2
Straighten the wire and wind it around the felt-tip pen to make something like a coiled spring, with each subsequent coil adjacent to the previous one.
Step 3
After winding the spring with pliers, bite off one ring at a time. For convenience, draw a line on the spring along which you will bite off the rings.
Step 4
Divide the rings into two piles: at one half of the edge, connect so that you get a closed ring, and in the second group, part the edge parts by the width of the diameter of the ring. Spread the edges not along, but across (perpendicular).
Step 5
Make a chain mail machine. To do this, take a board 150 mm wide and 300 mm long. From above, at a distance of 10 mm from the edge, in one line, drive in 8-10 nails at a distance of the diameter of the ring from each other. When weaving, the board will be in an inclined position (at an angle of about 60-80 degrees), rings will hang on the nails.
Step 6
Hang one closed ring on the cloves. If you have 10 studs, then there will be the same number of rings. Now take 9 open rings and connect two adjacent closed rings with one open ring. You now have two rows of rings. Before connecting two adjacent closed rings, hang two open rings on the open ring. It is more convenient to weave from left to right. Be patient, because you may have to make chain mail for two or three months.
Step 7
Connect the woven individual canvases together using a fabric pattern. At any time, the chain mail can be unraveled in order to remake it to other sizes, if the need arises.
