The adventures of Otto making an aventail

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 11:30 am

You veteran maille makers will likely get a chuckle out of this. While making my aventail (helm hangy or whatever term suites), I appear to have created a sprial. I was searching for the end of the current "lap" around the circle, so I knew when to start adding more extra links and found that there WAS no end, only the end I was adding to... So, I guess I created a spiral pattern

I continued on it anyway... but don't know what I managed to do. Shouldn't matter anyway I suppose.

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muttman · Post by **muttman** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 2:11 pm

Lol! I did the same thing the first time I tried to make a coif! Still don`t know how I did it, and it hasn`t happened since, but its nice to see I`m not the only one!
John

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taltosh · Post by **taltosh** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 7:14 pm

that can happen quite easily by accident when "sewing" the seam of a tubular piece, i.e. a sleeve, neck of a coif, aventail. I've had it happen when I unknowingly offset the rows I was attaching together by 1 link. Took me forever to find out what seemed to be out of place with my sleeve, took about 15 minutes to fix though.

Happy weaving!

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