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Making Chain Maille Pendants

January 13, 2022 By sue Leave a Comment

I haven’t made any chain maille jewellery for a while but whilst in lockdown I’ve been inspired to use some of the supplies I had already and try something a bit different. I’ve previously explored making various necklaces and bracelets using different chain maille weaves, sometimes incorporating different colours and sometime including beads as well. This time I decided to try making chain maille pendants using some of the different weaves that I had used previously: Japanese 12-in-2 and Helm’s Weave.

Japanese 12-in-2 or Japanese Lace

I previously tried this design in making a coloured ‘chain of flowers’ bracelet. A single ‘flower’ could be used as a cute pendant by itself or you can expand it out further to form a different shape such as this ‘diamond’-shaped pendant.

18g 5.5mm and 3.18mm jump rings
18g 5.5mm and 3.18mm jump rings
Start creating the 'flower' design
Start creating the ‘flower’ design
Start creating the 'flower' design

Start creating the 'flower' design
Flower design can be used as a pendant
Flower design can be used as a pendant
Expanded Japanese 12-in-2 design
Expanded Japanese 12-in-2 design

Another variation that I tried is a variant often referred to as a Shenandoah design where larger rings are combined with the smaller rings both linking them and creating a decorative ‘S’ shape around them.

Select your jumprings
Select your jumprings
Start assembling the design
Start assembling the design

First circle complete
First circle complete
Connect second circle
Connect second circle

Finished pendant

Finished pendant

Parallel or Helm’s Weave

I made a Helm’s Cuff Bracelet for an earlier post and was quite intrigued to see how it could be used to make a substantial elegant pendant that would suit evening-wear.

It follows the same linear weave as is used for the cuff but you create a series of chains that are one repeat bigger than the previous one and then link them together to form a triangular shape, and attach chain at the top corners to create your necklace.

Start creating your helm's weave chain
Start creating your helm’s weave chain
Make each chain one repeat longer
Make each chain one repeat longer

Link the chains together
Link the chains together
Completed pendant
Completed pendant

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