I photograph the different chains and bracelets I create, but because the metal reflects quite a bit of the flash or ambient light, many of the pictures are not of very good quality.
Tools I use are in the first photo. A double weave 20 G copper necklace is being done on a pencil, which I have used as the mandrel. The second photo is a bracelet displayed on soap (another endeavor of mine :)
The photo at left is another bracelet I made using the flat weave method I learned at Pennsic 37 from an encampment neighbor. I found it very interesting. I have had little luck finding any sort of documentation for it on anything but wool, as a kind of trim. It is very striking visually. It would look rather fine as trim on a Birka-style coat or along the bottom of a hood.
To the left is the trim mentioned above – it is obviously unfinished. I used 28 G copper wire on felted, blanket-weight, black wool.
This is the backside. The curls are the ends and beginnings of wire pieces.
Documentation:
~British Museum - search for Hoxne hoard, Thetford treasure, Winchester hoard individually
~online pdf online by THL Lêofsige Õ Caoimh known as Lyssa October 2007
~wire pendant and the bibliography for class thankfully posted online (since I was unable to attend Hrim Schola last year)
~draw plate mine is made from horn. I have discovered that the cone shaped hole is made naturally by the force of the woven metal being pulled through .
~online pdf with a great bibliography and pictures of wire weaving as trim in fabric
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