I'm back to cutting chain-mail for a costume for another one of my dolls. This time it's for an MSD-size Celtic Maiden. Instead of knit silver crochet thread, this one will get the real thing. I'm getting better at understanding the chain-mail, and how it works. The cut-off fingers are uneven at the tops and bottoms, and I tried reusing the cut-off links to fill in the spaces. I did manage to get the links into position, but there was no strength to the closed links - they just came off again. I thought I'd have to learn to solder, but the thought of soldering every tiny ring seemed overwhelming. In my online research I discovered many people had no problems making chain-mail without soldering the rings, but they were using new rings which had been cut with a saw, and so had flat blunt ends. Then it dawned on me - the rings I had cut off the glove had sharp pointed ends - not flat butted ends - so it was super easy for them to unlock from each other.
I looked in my stash for similar-size jump rings, and had ones that were a lot bigger, and some that were a bit smaller. I used the smaller rings to fill in the spaces at the ends of the chain-mail fingers. It wasn't even that hard, although I could barely see afterwards. Now that I can reattach separate sections of the chain-mail, I'll be able to make the glove go a lot further. I'm planning on giving my original Celtic maiden outfit real chain-mail sleeves, and I have an elven warrior planned that will probably use up the rest - I just need to find some tiny jump rings the exact same size and I'll be all set. After that I'll need to order some more online. I found a US source - Ring Mesh - that sells all different sized flat sheets of the tiny chain-mail.
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