hi this is julie with beadaholique.comand i'm going to show you how to do a byzantine chain maille weave and this here's an example. this is abracelet using the byzantine weave it's really pretty from all sides,almost forms a slightly squared off pattern and you see these rings they're going in oppositedirections that form a really pretty pattern i want to show you how to do this
i picked up some artistic wire chain maille rings and theseare specifically for chain maille and what helps is they actually show you on thetop of the package the inner diameter and the gauge and then if you were to turn over thispackage it's going to give you a handy develop chart for some of the more popular weaves like dragon scale, european 4-in-1, theturkish round it's gonna show you what size range in gaugesyou need and i said what inner diameter you're not familiar with termslike inner diameter and aspect ratio
i would say go ahead and that googlethose terms there's a lot of different information out there explaining thewhole mathematics system of chain maille but for this video i really wannaconcentrate on the weave itself so you're gonna need a series ofopen rings and close rings the open ones are just open jumprings. open them the same way you would with any other jump ring and for the purpose of this video iused two colors, so hopefully you'll be able to see how this works a little bitbetter
i have a scrap piece of wire handy. this was a head pin from a project that did not work out and i've got two pliers and you want to usepliers that you're comfortable with because it is a bit of work to do so let's begin for the byzantine weave it's reallyhelpful if you think of it in terms of pairs of two so i'm gonna take two of my gold rings and again i'm justusing two colors for the purpose of the
video and i'm going to take an open silver ring and i'm going to put it through the two closed jump rings and then i'm just going to close it up and since we want to think in terms ofpairs we need another open jump ring to repeat the exact same process as theother one go through those two close rings
close it back up so now we have two sets of two so i want to add a third set. take aopen jump ring go through the two jump rings that i just attached close it. you want to try to close yourrings as carefully as possible so that you don't nick the finish. alsoyou want them to be lined up and closed it'll help if you
when you're going further along onthis weave if everything was neat and tidy this one here needs a pair so keep the same process go through the two ringsi just attached so now fold this we have got three sets of two, two, two and two
so now's the first time we really needto go ahead and start to do the weave so what i want you to fold down the last two that you just attached so theyalmost form a v going in the downward direction i'm going to take an open jump ring this is the hardest part ofthe entire process just getting this first one on
so be patient you might have to redo it acouple times go between the two rings that were the middle section and then we wanna latch on to one of the folded down rings and latch it onto the second foldeddown ring. this can be a bit tricky to begin with do what ever you need to do to get thisfirst one on there
so we split the top, the middle, what werethe middle two and then the folded down ones we latchedonto their top parts close this back up repeat the same processbecause we're thinking in terms of pairs this one needs a match and it's going to be much easier latch that one on remember how i said you needed a scrap pieceof wire flip your chain maille over so iwas holding it like this, this was the direction i was going from
flip it over and basically just gonna mark where myend is because if i was to drop this right now i would have no clue which end i was working from all right so let's go back to where wewere working it's not looking like a lot right now. it'shard to see what's happening we're starting to form a little bit of apattern so what we need to do now is we need torecreate what we started with
when we have those three sets of two the easiest way to do that is to take anopen jump ring latched onto it to already closed jumprings and latch those onto the top two that you just placed close that up it needs a pair, so take another open jump ring
go through all four of those rings close it up this is what we've got so far so now we're gonna repeat that next stepwhere we took the two top rings and we folded them down so they'd be in av shape pointing downwards and then we're gonna take an open jumpring split the two that are at top so we can go between them latch on
the top part of these two rings facing downward in a v shape this can be tricky. it does go a lot faster the more you do it there we go close that one up and we're gonnaattach it's matching pair i noticed that i didn't quite get this one closed all the way you can see how it's starting to build areally pretty pattern take an open jump ring
link on to it two closedjump rings and then we will link back through thetops of the two rings that we've just attached, so now you've got four onthere and repeat we want to just make sure it has amatching pair cause it's always working in twos go through all four and close it up and let's look at what we've got so far
you can see how it's building i'm going to do a little bit more here so thatyou can see the process and then you'll just keep doing it forwhatever length you want if you're making a necklace or a bracelet so we've got the three sets of two, set of two, two and two now we have to fold the top two down to form a v
go through, we want to splitthose top ones and we want to latch on the top of the two rings which are folded downin the v shape add a second one here's how it's looking add two more sets of two so that wehave those three sets of tw link onto it two close jump rings
link that to two the one you just attached.you have four on there close it on up take another open one link it through all four and close it and one more time with that folding down to form the v shape so that you can see that process onemore time and we're going to
fold that down so it forms a v split that top one go between it and latch on to of the two that are folded down add it's matching pair close that one as well you can really see the patterntaking hold now
it's really pretty from all differentdirections. you just keep doing that and the more you go, like i said, it'll get alittle bit easier it'll go a little bit faster, you'll figure outwhat angle that works best for you to try to link those jump rings together and then eventually you will end up with something like this which is a really pretty piece ofjewelry and you can make it
into a necklace or a bracelet or even earrings whatever you want it to do it's quite nice. it's very flexible it's all done just by interlocking jumprings by using the byzantine chain mailleweave
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