Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop: Technique: Techniques and Projects for Weaving with Wire

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Mail is widely used in industrial settings as shrapnel guards and splash guards in metal working operations. [ citation needed] Early medieval chainmail covered the body, later chainmail that also covered the head was also added. Stone, G.C. (1934): A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms And Armor in All Countries and in All Times, Dover Publications, New York

This armour is made by four rings joining a fifth, all of which are fastened with rivets. One row, indeed, on the hood, seems to double the number which would authorize the term double chain mail ; but as all the rest are as above described, the armour must be considered as the single chain mail. Yet mention is made in the Chronicle of Flanders of double chain mail, thus : Chainmail was flexible and lighter than plate armor and protected against medieval slashing weapons. Arms & Armor 12th Century Spear VS. Riveted Mail and Ballistic Gel". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23.

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Ian Bottomley & A.P. Hopson Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan P.57 & P.186 ISBN 1-86222-002-6 The Treatment of Mail on an Arm Guard from the Armoury of the Shah Shuja: Ethical Repair and in situ Documentation in Miniature

Open and close your jump rings only once. If you can. As you work with wire or metal jump rings, the metal will harden and stiffen. If you open and close a jump ring too many times, that metal will eventually become brittle and break. Try to open all your jump rings before you begin linking them, setting them in small, labeled piles on your work surface just as you would pour out little piles of seed beads for a bead-weaving project. This way, you only have to open and close them once (ideally) to prevent any kind of breakage in the middle of your project. Laufer, Berthold (1914-01-01). Notes on Turquois in the East. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. The origins of the word mail are not fully known. One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning spot or opacity (as in macula of retina). Another theory relates the word to the old French maillier, meaning to hammer (related to the modern English word malleable). [13] In modern French, maille refers to a loop or stitch. [14] The Arabic words "burnus", برنوس, a burnoose; a hooded cloak, also a chasuble (worn by Coptic priests) and "barnaza", برنز, to bronze, suggest an Arabic influence for the Carolingian armour known as " byrnie" (see below). Mail: Unchained", an article taking an in-depth look at the construction and usage of European chain mail

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Panel from the Bayeux Tapestry showing Norman and Anglo-Saxon soldiers in mail armour. Note the scene of stripping a mail hauberk from the dead at the bottom. Ian Bottomley & A.P. Hopson Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan pp. 155–156 ISBN 1-86222-002-6

Medieval chainmail has different names meaning the same thing, other common names are chain armor, ring armor, and mail. Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III., edited by Sir John Fenn The earliest Google Books match for chain mail that I could find is from Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons (1785):The first and foremost disadvantage of medieval chainmail was that it took a lot of time to make since every ring had to be assembled and linked with other rings. While it provided reliable protection against slashing weapons, it was not very effective against blunt force trauma unless there was an added protection by some other material such as padded gambeson. Entire suits of mail kusari gusoku were worn on occasions, sometimes under the ordinary clothing [40] Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-duc, Encyclopédie Médiévale and Dictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier Francais de l'Epoque Carlovingienne a la Renaissance. A much older criticism of chain mail appears in Francis Kelly & Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour, Chiefly in England, 1066–1800 (1931):