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Meanwhile in Germany ... Let me introduce to you t

Meanwhile in Germany ... Let me introduce to you the pretzel-mail. I picked up the idea from @murariu_alexandru_mihai. The weave is just a regular odd 4in1 - yet it is heaps more difficult to put the brezels together.

Possibly it allows for a variety of more unique weave styles. One could even make riveted version. What do you think about it?

Highlights of 2019. My personal favourites are the

Highlights of 2019. My personal favourites are the pictures that sparked great conversations.

We found solutions to explain the big ring in the Bavarian mail shirt. We discussed replicas for the Chinese mountain armour and Roman scale armor. You helped to put together pictures, translations and fixed my wrong information within minutes.

Many of you started making riveted chainmail yourself and I'm proud that I could help and follow you on the way. I even had the chance to meet a few of you in person.

In short: It's been an awesome year! I want to say thank you for everything you contributed. Without you this would just be a pile of pictures. Now this turned into a proove that chainmail is a great hobby, brought alive by awesome generous people from every corner of the world! Let 2020 be even more fun! I'm ready! 🙂 Sebastian from Germany

PS: Let me know what you learned from this channel! Which was your favourite post?

Now here's a variety of mail weaves in parts fanta

Now here's a variety of mail weaves in parts fantasy and historic.

The generic mail is also known as European-4in1. I have witnessed people refer to the type below as 2-Ring-Mail or Japanese-4in1. What is called Angle Mail and Cruciform Mail here actually also looks like mail used by the Japanese. The Hex-Mail is more a Mongolian/Central Asian thing. And the Norman Mail probably is not so much about Normans but generally inspired by Islamic Mail and Plate combinations.

Do you know more? Let's bring more light into this. Also: Which one do you like most?

This is an artwork by Irish artist Danny McGrath. You find more of him on artstation.com/DannyMcGrath

Ready to equip an army? These are pictures from t

Ready to equip an army?

These are pictures from the basement of the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a collection of weapons and armor with eastern and western origin. Many items have been modified and reused. I think most of it is from around 16th century or later.

I guess I'll be dreaming of that chainmail room tonight. Which room impressed you most?

Pictures taken from hungarianottomanwars.com/armors-and-shields/armors-in-topkapi-seray-museum/

Parade armour of King John Casimir of Poland, abou

Parade armour of King John Casimir of Poland, about 1660.

Now look at this beauty of iron and copper alloy! There is little figure dangling at his chest. It looks like a sheep or a dog
Picture as taken from Wikimedia, originally found on wilanow-palace_pl.

#kolczuga #kingjohncasimir #kingofpoland #oiloncanvas #17thcenturyoilpainting

Medieval Chainmail Cross on Silk Flag This reliqu

Medieval Chainmail Cross on Silk Flag

This reliquary cross is made of iron and golden rings. The white cross was sewn onto a fabric that was originally red and even decorated with geometric patterns. The item was seemingly composed in Sicily or in Bohemia between 1250 to 1350. It was a long time assumed that the object was assembled during times of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. because it first appeared in the Bohemian inventory of St. Vitus in 1355 as a donation by the aforementioned Emperor. However it is likely much older. Some of the inserted fabrics can be dated from 6th – 11th. century. The red cross on a white ground is an early symbol for St. George. It began to be used in the first crusades.

This Inventary Number. K 111 from the temple treasure at St. Vitus. Photo by Jan Gloc., Prague Castle Administration. Information and further reading: Milena Bravermanová – Petr Ledvina - Alena Havlínová – Dušan Perlík: Nová zjištění o přilbě a zbroji zv. svatováclavské

Experiments with annealing wire Many people have

Experiments with annealing wire

Many people have deep respect for the craft on making chainmail. Yet few understand that drawing wire was at least equally sophisticated and labourios.

I'm currently trying to make wire from old nails that I found on the fields. At first I forge them into a rod. Then I pull them through holes and in-between that I put them into the fire for normalizing the metal structure.

Probably putting the wire straight into the coals is not the best approach. Do you have suggestions to improve this? And would you like me to post more about wire drawing or rather some specific chainmail content? .

#wiredrawing #annealing #wiremaking #ironwire #heattreatment #normalizing #blacksmithing #coalfire #glowingmetal #wirecoil #Draht #filodiferro #glühen #schmiedeesse #nobarbecue #eisendraht #wärmebehandlung #feuerstelle #firepit #gardenforge #diyforge #redbricks #ironrecycling

Turkish heavy cavalryman late 15th-century Mail a

Turkish heavy cavalryman late 15th-century

Mail and plate armor for man and horse became the standard type of equipment for the Timurids (1370 - 1506) and the Ottoman Turks. These cavalry, armed with bow, sword and sometimes lance, were the main component of all medieval Islamic armies. The helmet, body armor and horse armor are original, but the ancillary equipment, including the bow, bowcase, quiver and arrows are reproductions. The original pieces are to fragile to put on display.

I took these pictures in the Royal Armouries Leeds, UK. (XXVIA 116, XXVIH34, AL 290 106)

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Japanese "Tatami"-Armor, Tatamidō 畳胴 of mail

Japanese "Tatami"-Armor, Tatamidō 畳胴 of mail and plates

Some of the Japanese Tōseigusoku armors were made of mail instead of Itazane (leather strips). Most of this mail is made in Japanese4in1 fashion. Yet the shoulder look like European4in1 style with rings of two different sizes.

This is dated 17th to 18th century. The item is exhibited as number 14.100.538a-k in the Metropolitan Museum of Arms and Armor. Picture by Marie-Lan Nguyen.

English Mail fragment dated 1400 to 1600 This fra

English Mail fragment dated 1400 to 1600

This fragment was discovered in the area of Devon, England in 2014. The rings are made of copper alloy with 18mm diameter and 2mm thickness. They show trackes of silvering on the surface. Likely they served a decorative purposes. They appear to be butted, maybe soldered.

The rings are quite big. Furthermore they are bend. I find that quite strange. Was it even part of chainmail armour or something completely different?

Picture by Danielle Wootton on finds_org_uk. Artefact ID: DEV-600825

Sword vs. handmade riveted chainmail This is abou

Sword vs. handmade riveted chainmail

This is about a test performed by Michael Edelson on handmade riveted chainmail manufactured by Juno Junio Funes.

Cutting: Even with powerful over-the-shoulder strikes the sword failed to penetrate the maille and could not break any links. Some of the links were slightly bent and nicked, but all were intact. The edge of the sword only took minor damage. Apparently the padding of the gambeson had absorbed the force.

Thrusting: The thrusts achived to push the mail into the padding by 1.6cm or 5/8”. Out of three medium force thrusts one was enough to break a single chainmail link. That thrust penetrated as deep as 7.6cm or 3”. Beond the mail the blade was barely stopped by the gambeson and penetrated as far as the mail allowed.

Technical Details: Edelson was using a MRL hilted Del Tin longsword type XX for cutting and an Albion Talhoffer longsword type XVa for thrusting. The target for cutting was a hanging pell constructed with a wooden post, surrounded by two layers of pool noodles. The noodles were covered in duct tape and wrapped in landscaping cloth. The same pell was dismounted and propped against a wall for the thrust tests.

Summary: The test underlines that riveted mail is an excellent protection for cuts from bladed weapons. To lesser extent it also offers limited protection of thrusts. Keep in mind that the absolute protection is a matter of the chainmail thickness/ wire-gauge. It is difficult to deduct general answers here. Apart from that - What do you think of such tests? What would you like to see tested in the future?

Source: myarmoury_com/talk/viewtopic_php?t=11131

WW1 helmet with chainmail ventail 1916 to 1918 Du

WW1 helmet with chainmail ventail 1916 to 1918

During the mountain fights on the Italo-Austrian front British soldiers had to suffer from blindness and injuries to the eyes caused by small particles of metal, stone, rock, brick, wood or sand. Such particles wood shoot through the air caused by detonations and bullets.

This helmet with vizor of closely woven chainmail was designed to prevent that. It was attaching with a chain to a movable loop on the helmet chin-strap. The vizor could also be adjusted to leave the aiming eye free.

The helmet is exhibited in the Military Museum Vienna, Austria. Thank you @der.snidaere.aus.kitzingen for visiting there and taking the picture!

Bored? Make pen chainmail! It's time to upset the

Bored? Make pen chainmail!

It's time to upset the people in your house by destroying all pens and turning them into butted chainmail. For bonus points you can use Mom's scissors to cut rings. 😛

Once you run out of rings you can use the wire coils in notebooks and calendars.

Stay home, keep everyone safe!

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Reenacment of a Sassanid horse rider of the 3rd Ce

Reenacment of a Sassanid horse rider of the 3rd Century AD

A cataphract is a heavy armored cavalry unit on ancient battlefields. The word comes from Greek language and literally means fully enclosed in armor. While the cataphracts had been used in Europe, middle East and North Africa this particular interpretation is about the Sassanid empire. It was a kingdom in the 3rd century middle East before the Muslim conquest. It's cultural influences spread until Western Europe and it transferred a lot of art and knowledge into what then became Islamic culture.

We see Chris Winstanley riding on Uther. Picture by John Tremelling.

Strange object with rare type of chainmail rings

Strange object with rare type of chainmail rings

The rings are of a kind that I haven't seen before. The ends of each rings are bent to hooks that hold each other.

It took me a while to figure out what purpose this item has. Can you guess it? It is not medieval but recent history Norway. Let me know in the comments what you think! Honor and glory to all creative suggestions. I'll give you 24h before I put the solution.

The answer is: It's basically a cow-bell. It's an animal collar that makes a sound by the dangling things. It likely also had a bell that is now missing. Congratulations to @catdish who knew the answer!

This object is item Bf_Bd_03408_01 on the Photoportal of Norwegian University Museums. (Don't you dare to look it up.) Picture by Stine Dornfest. Copyright CC BY-NC-ND3.0.

Chainmail is always the right thing to wear - - ma

Chainmail is always the right thing to wear - - maybe unless you're an electrician. This is my part in #dollypartonchallenge

Pictures: Linked In: Tim Shaw on YouTube, Facebook: Dr.Ts world of chainmail on Facebook, Instagram: me, Tinder: FuzzyChains on Devianart.

Constructed in a special pattern: Is this the olde

Constructed in a special pattern: Is this the oldest known chainmail?
This bronze chainmail from the Celtiberian necropolis at Cerro Monóbar, Almaluez (Campo de Gómara), Soria Spain is said be dated to 5th century BC. If that's correct it is the oldest chainmail that I have heard of.

The rings are connected in a 4in1 style identical to the Japanese kusari style. Apparently this pattern is older than the typical European4in1. The difference is that European 4in1 has every ring connected to 4 others. The pattern in this fragment has half of the ring connected to 2 others only.

The tiny rings are 3.7 to 4.5 in diameter. In the corners of the fragments there are plates with hooks - probably to attach the chainmail to other armor. It looks as if the rings are butted, not riveted.

This item is exhibited in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. It is Inventory number 1952/10/579.

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Chainmail Mosaic Tapestry This grand project by t

Chainmail Mosaic Tapestry

This grand project by titaniummithril breaks all boundaries of sanity. He put in 2500 hours within 4 years to assemble these 400.000 butted aluminium rings. The aluminium is anodised to give it varying shades of color. I estimate that this is the equivalent of 12 butted hauberk regarding the rings used. I'm more than impressed.
You can discover the artist titaniummithril on Facebook and titaniummithril.com.

Is this Norwegian chainmail shirt telling a story

Is this Norwegian chainmail shirt telling a story of violence?

This shirt of flat rings was found at a farm in Verdal municipality near Trondheim, Norway. There is no official dating, yet the rings remind me of 14th- to 15th-century German mail. The rings are flat and seem to be made in riveted solid fashion.

I'm wondering about the holes. Do we see damages from an attack here? Or did rings break when they aged? What do you think?

This is item Cf02359_C455 in the online collection of Norwegian Universities. Picture by Louis Smedstad. Copyright CCBY-SA4.0. as shown on unimus_no.

Bascinet with mail aventail, Germany 1360 The mai

Bascinet with mail aventail, Germany 1360

The mail looks nicely tailored to the face. There is a flap that can be hooked to the side. The mail part is sewn onto a leather band. This leather band is fixed by a cord. If necessary the mail can be separated from the helmet.

If the dating is correct, this helmet was made by someone who has witnessed the European plague epidemic of 1347 to 1351. Still that craftsman/craftsmen has/have managed to master a very specialized craft and created beautiful objects. He/they would probably feel with us and encourage us if he could see today.

I took these pictures in the German History Museum in Berlin (DHM). This is item W 3971.

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