How To Make Your Own Chainmail

This is the weave that you usually see in movies.

How to make your own chainmail.

There are several sections to this guide. If you re making a shirt you ll probably need at least 7 rows if not more. It includes hours of work and a lot of mistake making but the finished product can last a lifetime and looks pretty gnarly if you ask me. A tutorial on making cosplay butted mail.

Chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. So you might now how to put chainmail links together but making a shirt is an entirely different thing. This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application.

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. Add new rows until your chainmail is as thick as you want it to be. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. If you re going for jewelry 1 or 2 rows might be enough.

We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave. Keep adding rows of chainmail until you ve got enough of them to make your project. Get my blacksmithing ebook and start the adventure today. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire.

A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire.