CHAINMAIL

Chainmail - Chainmaille

Jump Rings of joy and beauty

Chainmail is also often spelt as chainmaille, and is also just known as maille. It is an ancient art form using jumprings (jump rings) to form armour and jewelry. The different ways of linking the jumprings together is known as weave. The pictures shows some samples of chainmail weaves.

Chainmail can look deceptively simple but has whole bodies of specialized knowledge behind it. And so it can get pretty confusing. As I mentioned in my blog "Wire and Chainmaille - a newbie's journey", I will be presenting simple information on chainmaille especially for the use in jewellery making.