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12-29-2007, 02:24 AM
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Dear Lynn,
Are all folks doing chain mail this f-ing nuts?
Sincerely,
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12-29-2007, 03:29 AM
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I haven't met very many people who do chain mail, but from what I've seen you have to be a little nuts to do chain mail
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12-29-2007, 09:45 AM
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My friend in Buffalo's done it for years. I remember he had a six inch square of "fabric" made out of maille and it took him months to do, adding links between classes in college.
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12-29-2007, 10:07 AM
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DH does it - in fact he's working on some chains right now. Remind me later and I'll take pictures of the ties and the "Ellis" inlay he did. 
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12-29-2007, 10:08 AM
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Quote: pippadaisy said
 Dear Lynn,
Are all folks doing chain mail this f-ing nuts?
Sincerely,
pippa | Easy answer is uh, yeah.  We are.
That banner is an ambitious project - Jer's working with the same size rings to make a vest, and he's got about 400 rings invested right now.
I usually work with itty bitty teeny weeny rings, so I think I qualify as even a llittle more nuts than the Google blogger.
I'd seen somewhere, someone who made panels for windows at a museum...but I believe there were several people working the project and they took their strips of maille and "sewed" them together to make the window panels.
It's actually quite therapeutic...repetitive patterns like knitting or crocheting, you just use pliers instead of needles or hooks.
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12-29-2007, 11:39 AM
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Lynn may be just as nuts, but her bracelets are way prettier. But that really is just hyseterical. I love Google, and I would love working around people like that!  |
12-30-2007, 07:36 PM
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I love stuff like this. One day I will join the nutty chain gang. For now it is just crochet.
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12-31-2007, 12:10 AM
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Here's the inlay work that DH did several years ago: 
It's a little crooked - I think he accidentally got some different-sized rings in there and it skewed it. It's an "Ellis" worked in there. Giant "E" with an "L" inside it, another "L" inside that, then the "IS" inside the second "L".
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