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Hello everyone!

This is the ArtArmor Workshop.

And we have a chainmail master as our guest.

He can make such riveted chainmail.

Hello everyone! My name is Vova.

I've been making chainmail for more than 10 years.

Here we can see chainmail

which fits to 9-13 cent.

What is specific?

The rings for such an early period are round in cut.

They are flattened only where they are riveted together.

Chainmail masters could be the calmest people on Earth.

The work requires good sight,

and long-time attention.

Because here everything is connected with masters attention

and with sleight of hand.

I think that the chainmail master

kills someone after the work's finished.

How many rings are in the chainmail?

This chainmail is made for the middle-sized person,

Approximately 100-120 cm girth of the chest.

And here are near 15000 rings.

What is important for those who participate in reconstruction,

is that they wear the a belt.

The belt takes a great part of weight off,

And it is more comfortable to wear a chainmail.

the belt ties up the half of the mail and the rest is on the thighs.

This type was spread out among vikings,

Kievan Rus', great princedoms of that time.

Also the chainmail netting

was known in Islamic states.

They just had a different shape of rings,

And a type of netting was a little different.

So, in general, you can make European chainmail as well as eastern?

Yes, they have a smaller ring diameter, but different type of netting.

By the way, thy are pretty light and spacious,

because they ride a lot

and carry a different type of armor.

That is why they have a protection from light cutting weapon.

The chainmail can be finished,

if we work 8 hours a day,

it is finished in 20 days.

The job is confining,

but what's important is a good lightning,

good instrument,

the elbows should have some support,

because a lot is done hanging.

As I understand, if your hand grow out your ass, the elbow support won't help.

Then you can get ass support.

Another thing that is important, is about the back.

You sit a lot during work and it is important

to stretch every hour or two.

you won't feel anything after two month or half a year.

But after a couple of years you will fill

with your back that you need this stretching.

So you can make chainmail for body,

as well as different chainmail elements.

Here I can see chainmail glove.

Chainmail gloves

are very useful for reenactors

which take part in

historical stage fights.

Because it is very injure risky

and you have more chance not to damage your fingers, hands, wrists.

And you get home with unhurt hands.

Yes, for guys who do reenactment,

without accent on sport, breaking fingers and so on,

this gloves will help to protect their fingers.

Good. And are there some artefacts for these gloves?

Or is this just a stylization?

Is this a dumb question?

No, it is alright.

You make a glove.

And then some guy comes to you and asks:

"Where are the artefacts?"

Really, I had only orders to sew round the glove.

So it is a fakery, right?

I just haven't come across it.

Maybe I searched not very good.

But I often see that people do this,

because it is needed and important.

Sources for such gloves I maybe searched bad, but I haven't seen them.

But there're a lot of teams who use them

because hands and health are more important.

By the way, maybe someone will watch this video and has links,

send it to us, we will be really glad.

Gloves protect the wrist,

of course, not as good as plate gauntlet,

because accurate hit to the wrist

will most likely damage the fingers.

But on festivals which are concentrated on the reenactment,

there's no intention to harm the enemy,

there's an intention to make history.

To feel it through.

That's why people there don't hurt each other.

They just make reenactment.

Now we've seen early variant,

gloves and other possible chainmail elements.

Now we can transfer to the more late periods,

and to see what is different.

In which century this chainmail collar could've been worn?

This collar matches 14-15 cent.

And I want to add that we already talked about rings of an early period,

here are the rings of the late period.

They are different, because

they are flattened on the whole ring,

To cover up more space.

And pass through less stabbing hits.

Chainmail netting in the late period

serve more in this direction because

they protect armpits, neck.

Hard-to-reach places,

where it is hard to make armor.

Yes, they are not easily protected with plate armor, especially armpits and crotch.

or a sword with such an edge

won't pass through such rings, right?

Yes, this netting is small.

Here the 1.2 wire is used.

With diameter 6.

And there are some sources with such netting.

Yes, maybe with the strong hit it will break, but

it holds hit very well.

I think you are more likely to get a bruise.

But the chainmail won't pass the hit through.

This is the second type of collar.

As I can see the top has a different netting.

Tell more about it.

Yes, here is the standard netting - four rings in one,

and on the top, to make it more secure,

and to protect better from hits,

he the six-in-one netting is used.

Here we can show you how secure and unbreakable this netting is.

Needle 3 mm thick can't get trough the rings.

Well, we're not hitting full force,

I'll need him later.

And this rings are 1.6*10, they are bigger than previous ones.

Will the needle pass through the chainmail on the chest?

Yes, in the four-in-one netting, sure.

It the late armor everything here is covered,

all is left is to protect the neck.

So now you can order not only armor from the plate steel,

but also the chainmail netting.

Riveted as well as cut-riveted.

For example, collars, armpit insertions,

aventails and so on.

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