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09-04-2007, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Use of chainmail?
One of my friends recently saw some of the things I made and suggested I post my site amongst the Goth crowd. I currently do custom made chainmail jewelry and accessories. I'm not really goth myself but I just wondered how much (if any) chainmail is used in the general Gothic wardrobe? If you want to check out some of my creations check my profile and head to my home page.
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09-04-2007, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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Sometimes I use it as accent pieces or for fun. Post some of your pics. please. We'd love to see them.
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09-04-2007, 11:51 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: "Under the silence in dreams"
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I don't see a link in your profile?
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09-05-2007, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: A doll house
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do you make chainmail jewlery? Like would you do custom make necklace?
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09-05-2007, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I would so wear a chainmail vest everywhere. You never know when someone's going to attack you with a morning star.
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09-05-2007, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus
I would so wear a chainmail vest everywhere. You never know when someone's going to attack you with a morning star.
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The chainmail wouldn't help too much. The morningstar would still shatter your ribs, it just wouldn't imbed itself in your squishy bits.
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09-05-2007, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New England
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It's not entirely common as whole pieces themselves, but it can be used as a good base for a nice beadwork necklace or choker. (I make maille as well)
You may want to make some 4 or 6-wide belts, and use them to hang coins and noisemakers off of for "gothic" belly dance types, they seem to go for things like that.
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09-05-2007, 03:39 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Under the clouds.
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I would wear chainmail as a necklace or choker as well. I can never picture myself wearing a complete outfit or include a vest of chainmail in my outfit. Though I think it's interesting how they have models pose in chainmail on some websites. Kinda of provacative, eh? o_o
Which has led me to think if chainmail is used for those sorta of things or not.
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09-05-2007, 03:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I think that it can be done, if used appropriately and in small amounts. It's just when you get into the realm of whole outfits that you start to look tacky/ridiculous. Unless you are attending a renaissance festival; then anything goes.
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09-05-2007, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
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This is just my opinion and shit, but I find chainmail to be incredibly nerdy.
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09-05-2007, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by badteccy
This is just my opinion and shit, but I find chainmail to be incredibly nerdy.
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Yeah, I find it nerdy in a way as well. When I see chainmail I think of knights.
I laughed at your signature. XD
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09-05-2007, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
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Chainmail makes me think of that really bad Dragonheart movie that I loved when I was a kid and had no taste.
And badteccy, I agree with Miss Cogs about your signature. It's hillarious.
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09-06-2007, 05:43 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: England.
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I saw this awesome chainmail skirt in Camden a while back. I'm heading up there later this month, and if I see that damn skirt again I'll buy it!
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09-06-2007, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
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Chainmail would go with my swords...but I am not allowed to take them outside for fear of the constabulary.....
I think a choker would be quite nice though, and sort of imply that I have swords without me having to be detained by armed police.
*edit * No, I would not actually go out wearing chainmail and carrying a sword...unless there was a war on chavs.
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09-06-2007, 01:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Amidst a shallow grave
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World War III-The war on chavs. I do like the cainmail pieces, though. Good stuff. 
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09-06-2007, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
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You can thank SA's weekend web for my siggy.
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09-06-2007, 03:29 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New England
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Originally Posted by badteccy
This is just my opinion and shit, but I find chainmail to be incredibly nerdy.
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OK, I admit it, it totally is. But in a nerd-that-could-kick-your-ass kind of way. Well, it's armor, so maybe in a nerd-whose-ass-is-really-really-hard-to-kick kind of way instead. :-D
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09-06-2007, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Hello all,
I also tinker with chainmaille weaving. I tend to wear a chain on my pocket watch and I used to wear a spiral weave necklace. I have also made a permanent spiral bracelet for a friend of mine. I have seen plenty of maille in the public sector that just blends in so it is totally feasible. There are, of course, plenty of examples of extravagant maille that make the general public nervous.
Counting the scars from slipandjabs,
Matt
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09-06-2007, 08:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Under the clouds.
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Originally Posted by msr.iaidoka
Hello all,
I also tinker with chainmaille weaving. I tend to wear a chain on my pocket watch and I used to wear a spiral weave necklace. I have also made a permanent spiral bracelet for a friend of mine. I have seen plenty of maille in the public sector that just blends in so it is totally feasible. There are, of course, plenty of examples of extravagant maille that make the general public nervous.
Counting the scars from slipandjabs,
Matt
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It must be hard to weave chain because it would lock, is the word I'm thinking, all the time, wouldn't it?
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09-06-2007, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Miss Cogs,
I do not quite follow what you mean. Do you mean taking lengths of chain and weaving them as if they were strips of fabric?
Wishing I had my pliers with me,
Matt
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09-06-2007, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Under the clouds.
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Originally Posted by msr.iaidoka
Miss Cogs,
I do not quite follow what you mean. Do you mean taking lengths of chain and weaving them as if they were strips of fabric?
Wishing I had my pliers with me,
Matt
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Forgive me, sometimes I can be confusing. ><
I'm not really sure how chain is weaved together, so I wouldn't know if it would be difficult or not.
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09-06-2007, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Miss Cogs,
No problem. The use of the word "weaving" does not mean that lengths of chains are woven together. What it means is that individual rings are interlocked into patterns, making either chains or sheets. It is hard to explain without a visual example. The URL in my profile leads to my artisan page and should give you some examples of what I mean. Feel free to ask any questions you wish, I could talk shop for hours.
Toying with my chainmaille key fob,
Matt
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09-06-2007, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Under the clouds.
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Originally Posted by msr.iaidoka
Miss Cogs,
No problem. The use of the word "weaving" does not mean that lengths of chains are woven together. What it means is that individual rings are interlocked into patterns, making either chains or sheets. It is hard to explain without a visual example. The URL in my profile leads to my artisan page and should give you some examples of what I mean. Feel free to ask any questions you wish, I could talk shop for hours.
Toying with my chainmaille key fob,
Matt
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Thank you for explaining it to me, I now have a better understanding now. I will look around there as well and if I have any questions, I'll be sure to ask you.
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09-06-2007, 10:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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Does anyone have a link to somewhere where I could buy chainmail chokers?
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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09-06-2007, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
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raggedyanne,
If you like pure silver, and can afford it, www.spiderchain.com would be a great place to look.
Aside from that, contacting an individual weaver on www.mailleartisans.org would also work.
If neither one of those options appeals to you, you could always commission either myself or one of the other weavers on this forum.
No outfit is complete without chainmaille,
Matt
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