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Egyptian Chainmaille Workshop

Taught by Dory Brown

August 27-28, 2005 from 9am - 4:30pm at Monnda Welch's studio in Pittsboro.

Cost: $150 for members (you must be a member to participate).  Add $20 to your fee to join NCSG.

Eqyptian Chainemaille is a technique over 5,000 years old which makes a flexible, bold, strong, comfortable mesh which needs no clasp. The flex of the links allows a slight "stretch" allowing the mesh to expand for your hand and relax to your wrist. No soldering is needed; this is a weaving technique. Its simple repetition is its beauty. This project will expand your awaremess of detail, as simplicity always does.

Nine students learned to make this mesh and explore the many uses of a "jump ringer", a tool usually used to mass produce your own jump rings in many sizes and shapes for your many possible projects.