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ink_in_handBeen busy, been sick, been busy being sick. But I'm back again wit a couple of photos. It's all fine and good to say online you've done something, it's another to show proof of it.
Everything I use to make chainmail is there. Copper wire to start with, knitting needles to wrap the wire into a spiral, wire cutters to cut the coil into links, two pliers to close and connect the open links together, and a plastic vial to hold the unconnected circlets. The large piece in the middle is not quite two inches wide, and just over eight and a half inches in length. To give you an idea of just how much wire I'm working with, each link is .8 inches worth of wire, and twenty links connected equal a little less than one square inch.
It was in high school that I taught myself how to make it, bored between lessons in my metals and jewelry class I picked up some wire left over from our wire sculpture project, used the technique the teacher showed us to make those connectors in jewelry and fiddled with it. Not long after I had myself a bracelet which is the one made of thinner wire on the left. If you can't tell I've got one very skinny wrist, despite the fact that from base to tip my hand is the length of that there long segment of chainmail.
Earlier this week I took a lampworking class, a fancy way of saying how to make glass beads. My mother is trying to start a beading kit thing company with some other ladies, and since I'm the artist of the family she's hoping for me to make focus beads for her. Apparently, I'm very advance for not having done this before. And while I should probably just be happy with what I did, I can't help but be frustrated that the headshield slug didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.
I apologize for the shitty photos, the camera I was using hates micros.
Everything I use to make chainmail is there. Copper wire to start with, knitting needles to wrap the wire into a spiral, wire cutters to cut the coil into links, two pliers to close and connect the open links together, and a plastic vial to hold the unconnected circlets. The large piece in the middle is not quite two inches wide, and just over eight and a half inches in length. To give you an idea of just how much wire I'm working with, each link is .8 inches worth of wire, and twenty links connected equal a little less than one square inch.
It was in high school that I taught myself how to make it, bored between lessons in my metals and jewelry class I picked up some wire left over from our wire sculpture project, used the technique the teacher showed us to make those connectors in jewelry and fiddled with it. Not long after I had myself a bracelet which is the one made of thinner wire on the left. If you can't tell I've got one very skinny wrist, despite the fact that from base to tip my hand is the length of that there long segment of chainmail.
Earlier this week I took a lampworking class, a fancy way of saying how to make glass beads. My mother is trying to start a beading kit thing company with some other ladies, and since I'm the artist of the family she's hoping for me to make focus beads for her. Apparently, I'm very advance for not having done this before. And while I should probably just be happy with what I did, I can't help but be frustrated that the headshield slug didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.
I apologize for the shitty photos, the camera I was using hates micros.