[Jewelry making - Article 00205] - Re: [Orchid] Gold mesh tube?

[Carol Wang]

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>     they look like the tubes i get when i use an old wooden thread spool
>     and 4  nails .... 

    i usually do a double stitch, gives a full, thicker Spool knitting
    (sometimes called French knitting) made on a spool or a knitting
    nancy making an i-cord or knit tube.  They have devices to do that
    now specifically for wire: 

     http://www.bond-america.com/products/wyrknittr.html

    the quick craft version of what Michael David Sturlin does: 

     http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/crocheting_in_gold.htm

    but I don't think that's what the necklace that the original image I
    was looking at was made of. 

>         Carol, I don't have that one but I do have a tubular knitted
>     metal mesh in several colours and 2 widths which knots well and has
>     great I bought some from you already, but I think it was the 20mm! 

    I think I'm looking for smaller with just a little more body.  Some
    more images of necklaces that I found: 

     http://www.dragonweave.com/mesh-chains.html

<edit>

    Ebay and Ioffer links removed - Sorry no auction links on Orchid 

</edit>

    "Silver/gold mesh chain" seems to have been the keywords I (or
    google) was looking for.  I'd actually purchased a second-hand silver
    mesh bola for experimentation purposes, but it was much denser than
    the examples with knots seen in the eBay and Littman links and would
    have been destroyed in the knotting with ugly results. 

Carol Wang
http://www.daoofsilk.com 
http://www.chineseknotting.org

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