Recently I've seen quite a lot of chainmaille jewellery around, usually made from silver jump rings in a huge variety of fantastic patterns - some traditional, but many contemporary. After some searching and the reading of many different tutorials, it occurred to me that some of these designs could be replicated using beaded loops - I thought it would make a interesting twist on the theme, however, it didn't occur to me that this method of construction would be extremely time consuming.... so this horrid torrential and gale force day inspired me to dig out my stash of silver plated jump rings and have a so.
I have to say that I was more than pleasantly surprised by the results. During the time that I've had available over the course of the day, I have managed to complete two pairs of earrings and a bracelet and a half. I would have loved to have got the lot into my shops this evening, but I didn't think on to take some decent photos while it was still light and there's no way to get a useable photo in the house.... still I tried and here are a few of the photos of the completed bracelet so that you can see the results and the truth of the terrible photos!!! Should you like these they will soon appear in my shops on Folksy, Etsy, DaWanda and Coriandr.
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