[Jewelry making - Article 00425] - Re: [Orchid] Byzantine chain patterns

[John Donivan]

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>     Aspect Ratio (AR) is the term. It is a handy little equation. If
>     you know that a weave will work with a given wire diameter 

    I thought I'd explain what this means to those casual readers who
    are just curious. If you have a 1mm wire, and make jump rings out of
    it to make either chains or chainmail with, then you have a decision
    to make. If the ID of your ring is 2mm, then you can maybe get 2
    rings to link to it, but your chain will be tight. If it's 3mm you
    can put two rings and you'll have a looser chain. Your basic
    chainmail pattern is called 4-in-1, which means that four rings link
    into one ring. So your ID for 1mm wire must be at least 4mm - if
    it's 6mm you'll get a looser mail. This all varies as to the size of
    the wire and the desired results, and that's what this all is about,
    is how to figure that out ahead of time. Many of the patterns have
    an optimum AR, because the links go together just a certain way, so
    it's even more important then. I'm not an expert at this, I just
    know about it.... 

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