[Sca-cooks] chainmail

[Stefan li Rous]

I tried to mail this earlier today, but we lost all access to the Internet
outside of my company, so I'm trying this again.

> Jaime asked:
> >  Speaking of chainmail, is it easy to do?
>
> The basic technique is fairly easy to do, if tedious. Where it
> becomes more difficult is in changing the pattern as needed to
> change a flat sheet of linked rings into a shirt or to fasten
> the arms onto the shirt or to create a tapered coif. Which is why
> I currently have a shirt with no sleeves and a coif that needs a
> neck piece.
>
> Anyway for more info, check these files in the COMBAT section of
> the Florilegium:
> chainmail-beg-art (24K) 11/ 2/00    "Chainmaille Tutorial for Beginners"
>                                        by Culann Mac Cruimeinn.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/chainmail-beg-art.html
> chainmail-msg    (119K) 10/12/01    Making chainmail. Mail armor. References.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/chainmail-msg.html
> chnmail-clean-msg  (6K) 10/18/01    Cleaning mail armor in period and today.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/chnmail-clean-msg.html
> merch-chainml-msg (23K)  3/ 6/01    Chainmail merchants and supplies.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/merch-chainml-msg.html
>
> The Florilegium is at: http://www.florilegium.org

> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net

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