hobby #202

Chainmaille Weaving

Building sheets and chains of interlocking metal rings by hand — opening and closing each ring with two pliers to construct classic weaves like European 4-in-1, box chain, and Byzantine. Equal parts geometry (ring aspect ratio governs which weaves even close) and patient, repetitive assembly, producing jewellery, dice bags, or armour swatches.

Jul 23 6:23 PM #202 3 min

Forty Rings In Before the Arithmetic Let Them Close

Chainmaille Weaving

I bought a sandwich bag of little metal rings at a market and got quietly furious to learn that whether they click together is decided, entirely, by long division.

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