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Step 8Now That You're Done...
There are many cool things that you can add to your shirt when you are finished. As always you can lengthen or take away rings in certain places. You can add dags, or small triangles along the bottome of the shirt or sleeves. You can also add inlays, which are shapes, symbols, or pictures put into chain mail through the use of different colored rings.
Dags- In order to make dags, start another row wherever you want to add one. Instead of finishing an entire row, connect 10+ rings and then stop. Instead of continuing the row, and a row under the one you just made, except make it with one less ring. If you started at 10 the second row will have 9 rings, the third will have 8, and so on so forth. A finished dag will look like this:
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Inlays: By using other materials such as copper or bronze, you can make shapes on your chain mail shirt. As shown in earlier pictures, my shirt has a cross made out o 14 gauge copper 1/4 rings. You can make whatever symbols/shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own.
Making a chain mail shirt is quite an amazing feat and I commend everyone that is able to finish one. Thank you for reading my instructable.
Here is a picture of an inlay used on a chain mail shirt.
Dags- In order to make dags, start another row wherever you want to add one. Instead of finishing an entire row, connect 10+ rings and then stop. Instead of continuing the row, and a row under the one you just made, except make it with one less ring. If you started at 10 the second row will have 9 rings, the third will have 8, and so on so forth. A finished dag will look like this:
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Inlays: By using other materials such as copper or bronze, you can make shapes on your chain mail shirt. As shown in earlier pictures, my shirt has a cross made out o 14 gauge copper 1/4 rings. You can make whatever symbols/shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own.
Making a chain mail shirt is quite an amazing feat and I commend everyone that is able to finish one. Thank you for reading my instructable.
Here is a picture of an inlay used on a chain mail shirt.
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Thanks for the awesome guide, I just finished my first shirt thanks to you. It looks awesome, I'll have to do a few touch ups here and there because its a bit too big in places but I'm sure I can manage.
Thanks again.
a bit long for shure but easy.
try making a glove where you can bend your fingers and where you feel confortable.
i did it with cooper wire
the rings are 1cm wide on ext.Ø and 8mm on inner Ø the wire is 1mm thick.
sorry for all those who don't understand metric system I'M FRENCH.
up to now I used about 50-60 metres of wire and I didn't finish my 3rd and 4rth fingers and my thumb and I still have a bit of my wrist missing.