#chainmaille necklace
I made this Byzantine Ladder necklace from raw Stainless Steel wire. I wrap and cut each link myself before putting them together into this fitted design that curves with the shape of your neck. To make it do this I make slightly larger links for the outer row and sneak another link into the pattern so that it all ends up perfectly tight yet flexible throughout. Details aside, I think it looks effortless when I step back and, more and more, that’s my goal!
I made this Infinitized necklace from 2,208 handmade links of 19 gauge Stainless Steel. It’s a Euro 4-in-1 tube that is twelve rows around. I made nine of the rows from smaller links and three of them from slightly larger links. Doing this makes the whole thing have a natural curve to it, it wears like it knows what to do on your neck, which makes it SO COMFY! In other news, The Portland Saturday Market is closed now because of the fires in Oregon and our last week of the year this year is going to be Sep 26th anyway because COVID-19 made it so that we didn’t have enough vendors to stay open. Long story short, Saturday Market is where I make my living, and even after we reopened this year it was down 75% for me, now I’m out of work again until we reopen in March 2021. Due to trust and love or due to stupidity and hubris, my spirits remain high! By the way, I do custom work and I sell on my website, nudge nudge
I made this SUPER SNAKEY Six Sided Full Persian necklace from 1,134 handmade 22 gauge Stainless Steel links. So tiny!
I spent some serious time yesterday dialing in my home lighting and camera settings so that I’ll be able to shoot all the rad new chains I’ve been making!
To make this stacked Byzantine ladder curve to fit perfectly around a neck, I make the outer sections from larger AR links and I double up the connector links (the horizontal ones) and then make the inner row from my normal Byzantine (two parallels) size. It woooooorrrrrkkkkssss!
I made this wild necklace from 20 & 19 gauge Stainless Steel. I used all sorts of random arrangements of Japanese 12-in-2 and just kept tweaking things here and there until it looked good. I think it turned out looking great!
