Fashionable Armour

Chainmail/chainmaille/maille for everyday wear. This blog will mostly focus on jewelry and accessory pieces, but will also at time look at traditional armour and it's history.

[armoreddragon]

Since it’s Pride Month (or Wrath Month as the case may be) I figured it was a good time to update some of my rainbow products to include other flag combos.

These are sets of bracelets you can wear as a big stack. I’ve made the rainbow sets for a while, but I just went through and updated the listing on Etsy to offer a bunch of the specific pride flag sets. They’re made with anodized aluminum and EPDM rubber rings, so they stretch over your hand.

And they’re available on my Etsy shop.

I can’t get quite all of the different pride flags right now, but I’ll do my best if someone asks. Notably, the lesbian flags call for a lot of similar colors that I’m unlikely to be able to match. Aro and ace are also tricky, since my normal supplier doesn’t offer gray rubber rings. I think I can source some from a smaller supplier though.

[met-armsarmor]

Face Defense of Mail, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor

Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Copper alloy (latten), iron

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/34827

[kiwoa]

New bracelet, inspired by the four feathers!

[nyvira]

Two of my pieces photographed and listed so far

[barkbro-blog]

Rainbow Chainmail

[bekadmfb]

Decided to archive some of my old jewelry pics. I need time to do this again…

[thestudiocollective]

[philtrocity001]

I may have underestimated how much space a 16-bit jolly roger would take when made in chainmail. Looks like thisll be more of a dice sack once its done instead of a dice bag.

[chainmaillebybim]

You can now find this great little collection of my finest Chainmaille Wallet Chains at the Tender Loving Empire store on Hawthorne Blvd, here in Portland! I rarely sell my work in other people’s stores. This is a fitting exception though, everyone involved in this record label and store have been integral supporters of local music and arts for so many years. I remember my band’s first tour was with the owners band back when I was maybe 18. With fond memories like that how could I not make a line for the shop? Anyway, go get something cool if you’re in Portland and you’ll be supporting local artists and a small business that has always held the highest standards of working with and for the community it is a part of! While you’re there you can even grab a copy of my band, And And And’s latest record on vinyl!

[chainmaillebybim]

I made this Stainless Steel and Copper Six Sided Byzantine necklace for you to spy!

[chainmaillebybim]

Making things with your hands is therapeutic. You know the therapy is working when the things you make turn out better than you’d planed.

[archaicwonder]

Medieval Arrowhead Impacted In Chainmail, 10th-12th Century

A broad lozengiform iron arrowhead with bolster and long tapering tang penetrating a section of iron mail composed from alternating solid-ring and rivetted links; the arrow’s point compressed and partly turned by the impact.

Mail was worn in one form or another from pre-Roman times through to the early 20th century. The construction method of four solid rings linked by one rivetted was developed in Roman times and remained in use in parts of Europe and elsewhere until the Middle Ages, being replaced by all-rivetted construction and latterly by plate armour. Mail coats (hauberks) were normally worn over a padded garment (gambeson or akheton) which served to prevent further penetration of arrows or spears which breached the mail. The present example shows the arrow’s point compressed and partly turned, suggesting that it either struck a further stiff defensive layer beneath the gambeson, or that the damage resulted from impact with the wearer’s bone.

[its-a-cat-world]

Off to battle.

[xchaospixiex]

WolfBlairCreations http://ift.tt/1tMzSFY

[makebeliever]

Vikings details 11/?  {x}

[cyborg-furby]

Am I doing cat armor right? No? Cute anyway!

[somethinglikeanarchive]

Back at the chainmaille thing, this time making a solid black choker in an oriental lace pattern out of aluminum. Can’t wait to see the finished product. Message me if you want first dibs on this one or maybe one in another color. :)