In Search Of Chain

Katy,

I think it's called wiggly chain, but I don't knwo where to find it. I have a link to instructions on how to make it though (via chain maille ).

---------- Barbara

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Looks like "sloppy loops," a chain maille weave. I don't know where to purchase it commercially, but here's an artisan site:

You'll have to scroll almost to the bottom of the page to see it.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a gorgeous site!!!!! Byzantine Rose, Romanov, Rosette & Tripoli just cry out to me.

One of these days I am gonna find someone around here that teaches Chain Maille. I am soooooooooooooo fasinated by in, and really, reeally want to learn how to do it.....

sigh.

so many arts, so little time.

katie

katie

Do you find that you simply _cannot_ absorb knowledge, however basic or complex, unless someone helps you in-person*?

If not, be the student and teacher all at once--teach yerself, doll!

I can highly reccomend finding back issues of magazines like Wire Artist Jeweler and a few others here & there that have any patterns in them. Also, less work, I've found that M.A.I.L.'s tutorials (and forums and everything else) are quite extensive & helpful:

Sometimes I have to find a pattern in more than one place before I can learn it, but only a few so far like that. Once you can do one, I think, the others are going to fall into place--AND THEY'RE ADDICTIVE! heeheehee..... I might also add-- start saving for a Jump Ringer now!!

Or come use mine and we'll be a coupla linking fools!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee.....

*That wasn't meant to come off as a put-down. While the exact opposite is true for me,(I need to be self taught or I learn nothing.), I am quite compassionate about any sort of "learning-barriers" just because of that. When you have a certain way that is the ONLY way you can learn, it's a real bummer when you can't get it happening, or when people give you crap about it, etc. Sometimes for me, if that kinda stuff bugs me enough I end up wanting to not learn anything at all and that REALLY sucks.

One time when I was in The Bad Kids' School I almost threw an anvil at my very favorite art teacher's head. I was 16 and had been beading since I could figure out to put something thru something else and wear it, and she was trying to get me to go beyond beading as far as jewelry making stuff. (Bless her, I'm happy to say we're still pals & she's forgiven me)--What REALLY sucked about that was how I gave up EVEN BEADING for 8 years or so afterward. But thank god now I've jumped in FULL force, only teaching myself and much to her amazement, I'm doing things she never got around to even THINKING about trying to teach me.

WOW! I just told a totally amazingly long-assedly off-topic story. Go me! I suppose if anyone argues with me, I've got an anvil or two right here by my keyboard......

RAWR!

;-)

--m3rma1d

If there are good illustrations, I can usually figure things out on my own. I've yet to find decent Chain Maille pictoral instructions.

:)

Katie

:-) Yeah, I love maille. The really wonderful thing is that most of those weaves are just variations on a theme. I learned by buying a couple of kits. Now, I can see a picture on-line and most of the time I can figure out how it was woven. That's not true for those sloppy loops, though. I don't know how to make them...

I think if I can take a GOOD class, I'll be ok. I just can't find a decent class around here.

sigh.

Katie -

The kits from Urban Maille are wonderful - clear instructions, pictures and high quality materials. I highly recommend them. I learned flower chain and byzantine from her instructions.

---------- Barbara

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Barbara:

What an awesome site! I'll have to look more closely tomorrow when the meds aren't hitting me like a ton of bricks!

THANKS!!!

:)