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Hi. This is Andrea from Beadaholique.com. In this video I'm going to teach you another
chain maille weave and this one is called round maille or sometimes it's referred to
as european 4-in-1 in the round.
For this project
you are going to need
two packets of chain maille.
These are made by Artistic Wire
and the size that you need is eighteen gauge
with an inner diameter of eleven sixty fourth of an inch.
You're going to need two colors. One package of each.
I chose black and gold
for the example that I'm going to make here.
The one that I
have
on the table already completed is black and copper.
You can use any color combination you'd like for this.
So you're going to need one package of each color and you're also going to need
one toggle clasp.
I have Tierracast black finish
toggle clasp right there.
As far as tools go you're going to need just to pairs of chain nose pliers
or bent nose pliers or one pair of each like I have here.
So as with all chain maille weaves you wanna start with the majority of your rings
either open or closed whatever
the
weave calls for.
This one
determines your rings should be
most of them open with three of them, the three beginning
rings closed.
So the rings come partially open.
So to close them
just want to give it a little twist and until the two ends lineup.
To open them
twist the opposite way until it's open about an eighth of an inch.
I have quite a few of each color open.
Then I have my three close ones.
I'm going to with these.
What I want to do
is I want to link each
of the closed rings together
with a gold
jump ring.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my gold jump ring
and I'm going to
pickup
two of the closed black
jump rings
and close that jump ring.
Now I have this kind of configuration
I'm going to take
another
gold jump ring
and hook that to one of the black jump rings.
I'm going to add
the last black jump ring to that same gold
open jump ring
and close it.
Now as you can see I've got a little chain going
with alternating colors.
What I want to do is I want to make sure
that the jump rings are going in the same direction so all of the black jump rings
are facing the same way and all of the gold rings are facing the same way.
I'm going to join the last
two black jump rings with a single gold jump ring.
I also want to make sure that this is facing the same
direction as the rest of them.
So what I've done here is I made kind of a
ring or triangle of
the jump rings.
As you can see
I have my little circulate of rings
so that all the gold ones are facing in
and all of the black ones are facing out.
What I'm going to do here
is I'm going to pick up
an open gold jump ring
and I'm going to join
two
of these black jump rings that are
pointing outward. I'm going to grab two of them
and close them.
Now I want you to keep in mind that beginning any
chain maille weave is the most difficult part.
Just keep your calm through this process. I know sometimes it can get
really confusing in the beginning
but it gets much easier once you get the hang of it.
I've started many a chain maille weave where I just wanted to throw out across
the room and screamed my head off but if
you're persistence and patient.
You will be able to get it
So I'm going to take another gold jump ring and I'm going to join the next two set,
the next two black jump rings and
the round.
Close that one.
Now as you can see I have
one more grouping of two black jump rings that I need to join.
Scoop those up like that
and close.
So basically you could start out with
two gold jump rings in between each black jump ring. I kind of find it easier to do
it this way because it helps you form the pattern early on.
Now as a side note we do you have two really great booklets. One called the
basics of chain maille and one called advanced chain maille.
This weave is not in
either of them but
I find that it's a really handy weave to learn
before you go on to the other round maille weave such as
turkish round or byzantine.
Another little note is that one of the weaves that we will be
teaching you is a very common one called european 4-in-1 and it's a flat
weave
and since this is just a round version of that a lot of people like to make the
flat weave
and then just
double it over and join that. That also makes a round weave.
I learned this way so it's easier for me to do it this way but once you learn
european 4-in-1 and you want to try it the other way
that is a fine way to do it as well.
So now what we have here
is we have the circulate of black jump rings joined by gold jump rings.
The last round that we did we joined the outside of the black jump rings
but what I want to point out to you right here is that
the inside of each
gold ring,
the one on the inside of the circle, those are the ones that we are going to grab next.
We're going to do that
with black jump rings since we used gold last time.
I'm going to take a black gold
jump ring and scoop up
two of the gold jump rings on the inside.
I'm going to drop my formation here just for a minute to close this.
I'm going to try to pick it up
where we left off.
So now I'm going to take another black jump ring and join those two.
You're just going around the inside
of the circle and joining
the three jump rings.
Now we have one more to do.
I'm going to join that one to that one.
Scoop up
those last two
there
and one right there
and close those.
So now what we have looks like this.
Now you can see the inside of the black jump rings
but what we want
is we want to move back to the outside.
So
I'm going to fold those up,
the outside rings kind of like
petals on a flower.
Fold them up
and that's what we're going to join with the gold jump rings.
So pretty quickly with this weave you're going to notice a pattern.
You're going to go
outside inside outside inside just back and forth.
So right now I'm grabing the outside
of the rings.
Another one right there and there.
Join those two.
Give that a little twist
to close it and
we've got one more set to join here
like that.
So
here we are
back to the
gold
and the black on the inside and
what I'm looking at now and since I've just join the outside rings
so I'm going to join inside. So I'm going to take
some black rings and join those gold
rings on the inside.
When I'm doing this week really I'm just thinking inside outside inside outside.
So this is inside.
Scoop those up.
One more
on the inside.
And now
those three black jump rings we're going to fold them up like petals and join the outside
again.
I'm going to stop for a minute here. I'm going to show you
what it's starting to look like.
As you can see you're already seeing a pattern.
So before what was a jumbled mess is now starting to look
pretty nice.
Since we're on the gold round you know that we're going to pick up the inside next.
I'm going to go ahead and do that but I'm just gonna go ahead and
finish
the rounds until I get a bracelet long enough
to fit my wrist and to measure
this bracelet I'm going to put this down for a moment.
What you want basically
is for the actual links of the chain maille to fit your wrist exactly
and then that should be enough allowance for
a clasp.
I'm going to go ahead and finish this bracelet
and then I'll show you how to add the clasp.
Okay
so as you can see
and the entire length of the bracelet is done now.
All there is left to do is add a clasp.
Now since this pattern ends with a round of
three jump rings we need to narrow that down to two
because you can't thread a single job bring through
three jump rings.
So what I'm going to do is here I have
three black jump rings
in a circle.
I'm going to take a open gold jump ring
thread it through two of them
and give that a close.
And then
pick up that third one.
I'm just going to go through the next two. I'm going to skip that third side
there.
Now I have two
and that can be narrowed down
to just one.
So I'm going to take one more gold ring
I'm going to thread it through both of those.
I'm going to add one half of my clasp.
And just
as a precautionary measure I would suggest buying two packages of each.
I know I said this bracelet only requires one packet of each but there
relatively inexpensive and just in case there are some
that you need to call out
some jump rings that aren't perfect or in case you make a mistake
it's really handy
to have extras.
So I ended up going and getting another packet of the gold
and
you know it wouldn't hurt to get another packet of each.
So that's one end and I'm just going to do the
same thing
on the other end.
I'm going to use all gold here since I have more gold than I have black.
You have a completed round maille
bracelet.
So I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope you learned a lot.
Have fun playing with this weave. It's a
really fun one
and you can make a lot of other things out of this.
Just play around with it. Play with the different colors and
experiment with different sizes.
Have a lot of fun.
Thanks for watching.
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