In nearly all of the chainmail pieces, half the links are rubber, and half anodized aluminum. The stretch of the rubber means no clasp is necessary-- they can get over the hand but still are clingy around the wrist.
It's not feasible to make a claspless choker of this stuff-- and it's a bit dear to make a longer necklace-- but please note the hybrid choker down the page a bit, with a bit of persian up front and stretchy double-foxtail all the way around.
We also occasionally do these in and probably could be persuaded to do one in stainless steel or something. I've found copper and rubber don't so much mix; gotta find out more about that sort of thing.
The wrong size for everybody, so far. With four repeats, it's too small for nearly everyone, and with five, too large. But with a clasp of some sort, one might make a necklace or a 6" or 6.5" bracelet.
This one is especially easy to put on because you can roll it-- and it has some stretch to it as well.
Pattern is
ROYGBV-ROYGBV-ROYGBV-ROYGBV Also available inRROOYYGGBBVV-RROOYYGGBBVV andRRRROOOOYYYYGGGGBBBBVVVV Email measurements-- not that the size of this one is all that fine-tunable (because you want a whole number of repeats of the rainbow ROYGBP-- probably 4 or 5). There's a whole region around 6.5"-8" where neither 4 nor 5 repeats is so good. One workaround is to add some black rings, e.g.
RROOYYGGBBVV-K-RROOYYGGBBVV-K orRRRROOOOYYYYGGGGBBBBVVVV-KKK orKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK-ROYGBV-KKKKKKKKK (arbitrary number of black rings with one rainbow repeat; if you like that, the hybrid persian/foxtail below might be a better solution)A wrist-measurement-to-number-of-links conversion chart does not yet exist.
Email to request the same weave with other color combinations (e.g. black rubber with black or purple aluminum or we could try steel or something).
A bracelet can be made of nothing but four or five repeats of that (though at some expense...), since it only needs to stretch enough to go over a hand-- but the stuff is not so stretchy that it can go over a head. This choker has one rainbow repeat of Persian 6-in-1, and the rest is done in somewhat loose double foxtail (a chainmail weave traditionally made with metal rings, welded and twisted) with black rubber rings of matching thickness, 1/16"; the cross-section of the double-foxtail part is 9/16" x 3/8".
As far as I know, this is the first time f2f has ever been linked right into Persian 6-in-1. They're made for each other. Across the front and back their um rubber arrowheads point the same direction. And the transitions are not only smooth, but also sturdy.
Email neck measurement-- and let us know whether to round up or down if that becomes an issue. --Or wrist measurement. No reason not to have a bracelet of this.
Find items made from just n-tuple foxtail here.
(These pics are both 4-in-1; 6-in-1 stays a little more tidily-together around the edges, see top-of-page photo (center bracelet).)
