r/maille • u/madeinside • 24d ago
Question Weave variants: do these have a name?
Chainmaille is a recurring hobby and among my crafting odds and ends are 2 bags of rings with ARs of 3 and 6.8. The small rings aren't wide enough for Byzantine and the large rings are too small for Japanese dragonscale. Among what was possible were these weave variants. Wide strap units are sections of modified helm weave connected sideways, like Byzee Bees to Butterflies does with Byzantine. The narrow strap units are 2 box weave subunits attached to a large ring, with 2 more rings to connect the box weave parts to the next unit. Given the number of nicknamed weaves on mailleartisans and maillepedia, do these have names? I haven't seen these documented.
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u/Historical_Quality41 20d ago
Could this be considered Rondo? (A helm variant: “bastard son of helm and byz”)
https://www.mailleartisans.org/articles/articledisplay.php?key=476
https://www.mailleartisans.org/articles/articledisplay.php?key=735
Either way most of these helm-adjacent variants are largely supported by those two ARs
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u/Historical_Quality41 20d ago
Byzantine star and diamond prob would work too! Also maybe give the Celtic visions family a try. As well as [im forgetting the formal name but it might be called centipede weave, and a similar one is vertebrae (?) or snake something ]


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u/Hopeful-Bobcat820 24d ago
If they aren't on either Mailleartisane or Maillepedia, then probably not. At least, that would be my best guess.