Euro 4-1

European 4-1 Weave

European Chainmail Weave

The European 4-1 weave is sometimes shortened to Euro 4-1 or even E4-1. It is most famous for being the weave used in European knights' armor.

I recommend Tutorial from CGMaille and much as I would like to, I won't even try to produce yet another tutorial for Euro 4-1. However you might find the following notes helpful to you and can be used in conjunction with the tutorial.

Tips on Euro 4-1

1) Prepare a set of closed and unclosed rings to speed up your work. This image shows the basic Euro 4-1 weave. With reference to the image, the gray "center" row - are all open rings (i.e. you start with the jump ring open and then close it as you finish each weave linkage)

2) Apart from Step 1 which takes on 4 closed rings (left), every subsequent steps takes on 2 closed rings (blue) (right).

And instead of placing 2 closed rings on one open ring then try to weave onto main piece (as most of the tutorials will instruct), you can weave the gray/open ring onto the main piece, then put the blue/closed rings on, then close up the gray/open ring.

Samples of European 4-1 Weave

• bracelets done in Euro 4-1