Classic Chain Mail

Classic Chain Mail Jewelry offers patterns for beginners and intermediate jewelry makers. Using only a pair of pliers and a pile of jump rings, you will be able to make beautiful, elegant bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. It teaches the basic weaves and shows how to enhance them with unusual jump rings, beads, and crystals.

• Over 30 projects included

• Chain mail jewelry is a classic yet contemporary look

• Offers a creative challenge and refined results

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Author: Sue Ripsch
Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 96 pages; 500 color photos; ISBN: 9780871164070

Sue Ripsch shares her chain mail expertise in workshops across the country, and her original designs are represented by a Sedona, Ariz., gallery. She and her husband have developed her passion into an online business, “Jewelry by Sue,” through which they offer finished jewelry, kits, and jump rings made to precise specifications. They travel together to many well-known bead, jewelry, and wirework shows to spread their knowledge and appreciation of this fascinating art.

Introduction
Basics

BYZANTINE
Classic Byzantine Bracelet
Byzantine with a Twist Bracelet
Graduated Byzantine Necklace
Romanov with Crystals Bracelet and Earrings
Romanov Variations Bracelet

CELTIC
Celtic Line Bracelet and Earrings
Celtic Knot Bracelet and Earrings
Celtic Variations Bracelet

PERSIAN
Classic Full Persian Bracelet and Necklace
Graduated Full Persian with Crystals Necklace
Monty Python Bracelet

EUROPEAN 4-IN-1
Standard Bracelet
Narrow Bracelet
Checkerboard Bracelet

ESSENTIAL
Box Chain Set
Double Spiral Rope Set
Twisted Ring Link Chain
Rosary
Sputnik Crystal Earrings
3-in-3 with a Twist Chain
Infinity Link Bracelet
Roosa with Gold Balls Bracelet and Earrings
Turkish Round Mail with a Twist Bracelet

SPECIALTY
Status Link Bracelet
Dreaming in Mail Set
Crazy Eight Set
Sassy Swirl of Rings Set

From the Author

This beautiful book begins with a section called Basics chain mail, which provides an introduction to a historical perspective, chain mail. Although probably from the fifth century, most of us their use to recognize as a shield for the times of knights during the Crusades. The method of the invention in the course transformed over time into a popular technique for making jewelry of all kinds. Chainmail (for those of you who do not know) is a technique where jump rings and connected small circles of wire in different hole patterns with each other to create jewelry (among others). Chainmail jewelry in a position to offer, illustrations and information for anyone to create beautiful jewelry chain mail. Have this kind of jewelry is also very simple, what an entry point for novice jewelers wonderful art.
Organization of this book is simple and elegant is the theme explored. It is in chain mail Basic, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Projects divided. The book ends with a section of the gallery is really wonderful.
The first chapter begins with an interesting description of the development of techniques chain mail on site through the centuries. Did you know that divers still wear chain mail shark bites to avoid? Or use the 19 kitchen maid Coat of wool. Fascinating and wonderful prelude to the explanation of the technical problems with the jewelry.
Basics includes the tools and pliers, measuring instruments, devices and tools for cutting and polishing. All these are useful, but actually very few tools are needed for the chain mail. The clips are a basic requirement for the interconnection of the ring bit and can go very far with tweezers only.
The materials section of this book explains the many varieties of thread, like the rings acquire clean vs. commercial. Then go to the jewelry accessories (pins and others) the addition of beads, and stop dealing with the patina of the metal rings (color). In the last three sections of the page then goes into how to make chain mail and understand simple patterns and directions. So far, this is a very thoughtful and comprehensive book. Again, very well organized, prepared and designed.
Looking to start a project, we found no fewer than 12 projects that gradually the level of experience. These projects are diverse and include jewelry for men and women to show the reader how to integrate different grain and color rings. Earrings, an ankle, lasso, bracelets and necklaces projects are meant to be. Spiral chain is a remarkable here, with its unusual shape, nervous. Excellent choice for starting a project in this section.
Intermediate projects are located along eight projects to grow slowly in the level of difficulty. Men bracelets, necklaces with metal rings, bracelets, delicate mixed with a trailer hook-like and earrings, as well as mail without dwelling combine to make it a very successful chapter. Quick, simple and easy to give more time and a lot of ambitious projects to combine the readers a wide variety of options.
The last chapter in advanced delivery very well. Standards for most of these nine projects are more complicated, although the overall pattern of these techniques are very easy to implement. Most of these projects usually require a lot more rings. There is a Japanese lace collar, braided bracelet Drop Dead Gorgeous in its weight and grace, earrings are a real Wow and the snake necklace with tassels, is impressive.
Gallery section of the book is worth the price of this book alone. Why? Offers a variety of beautiful pieces to get us excited. It can be difficult and exciting, what the reader might be left with a lot of enthusiasm for this wonderful art. Chain mail jewelry design contemporary classical techniques does an excellent job of that which not many books jewelry wire: This book will not only teach the techniques of making wire jewelry and offers a stylish, elegant jewelry. make the combination of these two elements, technology and design make it a really great book!
-Gladysi's blog

Last week, I received Sue Ripsch new book, Classic Chain Mail Jewelry. And it's fantastic! If you have ever thought about making your own chains, whether to stand alone as a classic, gorgeous piece of jewelry or to be adorned with a pendant, this is one of the best "how to" books on chain mail I've found.
If you've explored Chain Mail, then you will know that the basic 4 "types" of designs are Byzantine, Celtic, Persian and European 4-in-1. Sue covers all 4 of these. But she not only gives the classic, or basic design for each piece, but shows you how to vary these for more stunning options. After these 4 families of designs, Sue continues with 13 other chain mail designs.
I started with the Byzantine. It is a classic design, resulting in a substantial necklace. I do know some Celtic designs so I thought I'd return to those later and moved to the Persian. This one almost stumped me. I worked it in brass, just to figure it out. It, too, is a substantial piece, with even more jump rings per inch than the Byzantine. But the finished product creates a tapestry of "V" shaped rings, all interlocked. From one side they point up, from the next they point down.
My next project is the crystal inside the weave. Sue shows this in a Romanov design and another Persian option. I am also quite interested in the jump ring "beads" and her suggestion of creating chain mail sections that would be connected by other gemstones or designs. Intriguing.
-Teri Baskett, S & T Creations

Classic Chain Mail Jewelry packs in over thirty projects for all skill levels and pairs step-by-step photos with complete directions for working with chain mail. Styles are varied and provide a fine series of insights on classic chain mail productions in a beginner's guide that assumes no prior familiarity with the styles or creation of chain mail jewelry.
-The Midwest Book Review