Obligatory self-aggrandizement via reposting my recent chain mail photo time!
Here’s the usual mail pattern (1 into 4, if anyone is interested). Notably, mail is not made from a single continuous strand (or pair of strands) of wire, unlike knit material. Not if you want it to bend, anyway.
As a knitter, the middle of the chest area makes no sense.
Knitting should look like a series of interlocking Vs, which it sort of does at times near the armpits, if you don’t look closely.
But across the chest area, it’s like a loop with one strand of yarn at each loop’s bottom, which is exactly how chainmail looks, but not knitting.
I’m on mobile, so can’t easily point this out, but look at the geometry difference between the middle chest vs armpits.
This is like if you used yarn in the pattern of chainmail, not like knitting,
Obligatory self-aggrandizement via reposting my recent chain mail photo time!
Here’s the usual mail pattern (1 into 4, if anyone is interested). Notably, mail is not made from a single continuous strand (or pair of strands) of wire, unlike knit material. Not if you want it to bend, anyway.
Damn that’s beautiful!
Shame we don’t really have the sort of ren faires or whatever in my country where you could actually wear that kind of stuff and get into character.
That’s stunning. You made that? Can I see more?