The left sleeve will be chain mail at least to the elbow.
I'm doing it from scratch. I want to spend as little as possible on this this thing. Anyhow I borrowed my father-in-law's electric drill and got a piece of scrap metal from the welding shop I worked at before I was a teacher:
Then I got some left over wire from when I built a Trumpeter Swan from paper mache and used the drill to make tightly coiled springs:
Next I cut all the 'coil loops' apart with a wire cutter:
Lastly, I weave the mail from the cut loops. Here is the start:
Notice my hands taped up with duct tape in those photos? My delicate hands began to blister after 15 minutes of cutting. Duct tape (and ingenuity) came to my rescue.
Thhanks great blog
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