This is actually a bit of a tale of sadness that brought this to life. Shortly after having finished the coif, I was laid off from my job. I fell into a pit of not wanting to do pretty much any chainmailling for a good 4 or so months. After a long while (and a gathering or two with other chainmaillers in Winnipeg), someone going by the name of "Sasandria" showed me a pile of different chainmaille samples. Seeing an awesome opportunity to practice new weaves, I lept at it with a mess of stainless steel rings. I separated all of the types of weaves into various "families" to ease in categorisation. Note: I take no credit for inventing these weaves (except Wilbert weave). I'm just making samples of them, which is unbelievably helpful when going to weave any of the uncommon ones. |
'Modified European' family: Alienmaille Dwarfmaille Interwoven 4-1 Gridlock Elfweave |
'Full Persian' family: Flat full Persian Full Persian 6-1 B8FP (box ate full Persian) Full Persian 8-1 grizzly One and a half Persian Lobster tail |
'Half Persian' family: Half Persian 3-1 Half Persian 6-1 Half Persian 3+1 in 1 Half Persian 4-1 Double half Persian 3-1 GSG (great southern gathering) One and a half HP 3-1 |
'Japanese' family: Japanese 4-1 Origami Japanese 6-1 Japanese 8-2 cubic Steppingstones |
'Round' family: Byzantine Roundmaille Boxchain Captive inverted roundmaille (2 rings captured) Captive inverted roundmaille (1 ring captured) Inverted roundmaille Trizantine Turkish roundmaille |
'Orbital' family: Power line Baelrog's barb wire Turkish orbital Thunderbolt |
'Multiple ring size' family: Helm chain This is not water Solar eclipse This is not food Scherzo Dragonscale (3 wide) Dragonscale (2 wide) Dragon's tail (Dragonscale 1 wide) |
'Spiral' family: Magician's Chain / Jacob's ladder Spiral chain 4-1 Inverted spiral Sick chops Jens pind linkage 5 (JPL 5) Jens pind linkage 4 (JPL 4) Jens pind linkage 3 (JPL) |
'Simple random' family: Foxtail Drunken Rhinos Spinal weave Tomato sandwich Orbital Fox Double Rover Rover RSD (rhino snorting drano) Shaggy weave |
'Complex random' family: Backbone Wilbert weave Viperscale Bore worm Persian dragonscale Beez to butterflies |