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On October 01 2010 04:34 heyoka wrote:
This is pretty cool, I love the stuff you're sharing.
This is pretty cool, I love the stuff you're sharing.
Heyoka is a pretty cool dude - you'll probably know him from his Statistics-filled Broodwar write-ups or his excellent moderation skills. Dude, I'm afraid I haven't had the pleasure as often, but one of my earliest memories is that you offered to help out with Arena. Also doing Observer was pretty cool. This one's for you bro!
So what's been keeping me busy? Mainly trying out a couple of new weaves and finding some applications for them. So, four parts, let's get started!
1. PERSEPHONE FLOWER
One of the weaves I came across was called Persephone. It's basically a row of linked units, every unit being a box (4 rings weaved connected Boxchain) in which the 4 center rings are held by another ring in the center. I didn't think it was that pretty as a string, so I made a flower by chaining 6 units and joining the ends. Quite simple really, but the result looks pretty cool. Another neat little fact is that this weave (and its flower) has a left-handed and a right-handed variant. Rings used were 1.6mm over 6mm galvy (3,75 AR).
![[image loading]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JjRV9kdI5FE/TQqb_sTbyRI/AAAAAAAABGM/aI_fkk8c2XI/s640/PC120060.JPG)
2. VIPERA BERUS AND VARIANTS
Vipera Berus is a European type weave, appearing mainly in chains as opposed to sheets. I'd made a piece before (and put it in my gallery) but, to my great dismay!, I noticed I'd made some mistakes. So I sat down and remade a good amount of chain.
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From the mistakes in the old piece I got a couple of ideas though. In stead of alternating side rings one by one, I use some 3 step spiral stairs and some zig-zag sidepatterns. I'll try to to illustrate in the image below.
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The right most chain is regular Vipera Berus. The side rings simply alternate left-right. The middle two chains I tried to variations of three steps. Looks okay but not as good the left most one which zigzags back and forth in steps of three.
They look pretty good but they don't bend too well. I'll probably submit these to the Maille Artisans' gigantic database. Possibly under "Vipera Berus variants", possibly under a new name. Vipera Twirlus? Maybe you guys can come up with something!
3. DRAGONSCALE
For some reason I never used to like weaves that involve different types of ringsizes. Like how a picture that's pretty of itself has more value to me than a picture that's pretty after photoshopping it, I used to kind of adhere to this "One ringsize to rule them all". I'm starting to make exceptions now though, particularly because of the mathematical preciseness that's involved with some weaves (whereas, in other, different ringsizes are still a desperate patch-up to save a failed endeavour - much like photoshop a contemporary front cover Madonna). An excellent starting point was Dragonscale. It's actually a weave consisting of two weaves that intermingle perfectly around and within one another. Imo it looks absolutely wicked.
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Behold!
Holy shit it actually looks like scales.
So yeah did a couple of things with this weave. First off there's the mandatory bracelet:
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Since the scales actually stand out to one side there's two ways of wearing it. Which makes it almost a 2-in-1-bracelet! Right? It's pretty sturdy and cool looking. Bit bulky though. Rings were 1.6mm over 10mm and 5mm galvy.
So what else? Turns out that if you roll a bit of sheet it becomes cone-like rather than tube shaped. This opened up the door to...
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And making some from sparkly bright aluminium I now have a nice addition to my Xmas tree :3
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4. MICROMAILLE
I've dressed some bottles in the past (basically you take a bottle, dress it with chainmail, and then put a candle or a flower or whatever in it for decoration), but I now laid my hand on a tiny sampler bottle. Time for some really thin wire, tiny rings and some hours of squinty eyed tinkering. The pics aren't the best.
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That's a plectrum
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Detail of the suspension spirals
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The copper makes a patch of Dragonscale in the Euro 4-1
It's a Big ring/Small ring variant of Euro 4-1 with patches of copper bound Dragonscale mixed in, all suspended from the top by tiny spirals. The bigger rings are 5mm, the smaler ones 3.5mm. Not sure what I'm doing with it yet. Possibly put a candlet in it for the holiday season.
So...
What's next?
Been browsing through some weaves and found some nice looking ones. They go by the illustrious names of:
Trinity Round (and Captive Trinity Round).
Not Tao 3 Sheet.
Euro 4-1 Thrice.
So that's what's coming up I guess. Thanks for reading, tell heyoka I said hi if you see him
High-res pics
Past blogs:
Gallery with various pics
Ring blog #1
MBC Hero inlay
"Shai Hulud"
TL inlay
The Flower and the Seeker
My balls...
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![[image loading]](http://www.mailleartisans.org/weaves/images/334-nottao3sht_tawnos.jpg)
). Pendants are made pretty easily but the aluminium cones take up to 1,5 hours to make since you have to be really careful not to scratch the material. So yeah making a mere 10 of them beforehand would cost me two days which, for the price I could sell it at, would probably not be worth it from a monetary point of view. There should be crea-fairs in summer again though which draw a lot of crowds etc. Will prolly go there if I have a chance.
