August 2009

Crescent Maille is expanding our entrepreneurial endeavors by launching a brand new site. While the URL cMaille.com used to redirect here, to WordPress, it will now go directly to the new site with links to shopping, galleries, news, links, and more.

This blog will be preserved, but for everything new, please head over to : www.cMaille.com

Click over to the Crescent Maille Solo Exhibit on Etsy Stalker to learn a bit more about Crescent Maille & the craft of chain maille in a wonderful post and interview. You’ll also have a chance to win either a Mobius-7 necklace (below), a Mobius Charm necklace, or a $30 gift certificate to the Etsy shop. The winners will be chosen July 19.

Mobius-7 Necklace

Crescent Maille’s Bestseller ~
A 7 ring mobius flower suspended from a fine pelline chain (a.k.a. a ball or bead chain, approximately 1mm wide). A mobius flower is made up of rings woven through the centers of each other; it resembles a seemingly endless spiral. The rings used are just over 1/2-inch in diameter (15mm); the mobius itself is a little wider, about 5/8-inch (17mm) (about the diameter of a penny). The chain is 18 inches long, but you can substitute 16 or 20 inches if you prefer. You can also substitute a cable chain. The rings and chain are all sterling silver.

Available in the shop; but check back in a few days to find out how to win one from Etsy Stalker when they publish a Crescent Maille interview!

Japanese Flower Bracelet Cuff

The Japanese Flower Bracelet is based on the Japanese style of chain maille weave. Many mobius flowers (each made of three rings woven through the centers of each other, resulting in what looks like an endless spiral) are woven together with smaller rings. Almost 400 rings go into a 7-inch bracelet. The mobius flowers are about 9mm in diameter. The bracelet is just under 1 inch wide (23mm). The Japanese Flower Bracelet is made entirely from sterling silver and closes with a tubular slide clasp.

To see more photos, and learn more about the bracelet, take a look in the shop.

Japanese Flower Bracelet Cuff

Japanese Flower Bracelet Cuff

Hello again!

After a several month hiatus, Crescent Maille (and cMaille at Etsy) is back, and getting up to speed. Please visit the shop to see what’s new, and old favorites. I’ll be posting more regularly, too. Thanks for your patience! Never hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, or are interested in a custom order.

— Crescent Maille

Crescent Maille’s alter ego, Cloudery, is featured in an interview on the Marquand Books blog, discussing art, Etsy, MVSEVM, and more.

We caught up with Cloudery, a designer and visual artist who has grown a series of rewarding businesses around Etsy, a website for buying and selling handmade goods, including Cloudery, Cloudery Digital and Crescent Maille. The artist talks design and offers tips for anyone new to the world of on-line art and craft. More at somethingcloudery.com and on her gallery-style blog featuring Etsy’s visual artists, MVSEVM.

Wide Fine Mesh Cuff

Wide Fine Mesh Cuff

Complete Luxury.
The European 4-in-1 is a weave traditionally used to make armor — but it also makes luxurious jewelry. The rings – over 1300 of them in an 8-inch bracelet – are 20 gauge and only just over 3mm in diameter. At 17 rows, the bracelet is 1-1/2 inches wide. The bracelet is completely fluid, draping around the wrist and very soft on the skin. The rings are sterling silver and the bracelet closes with a sterling silver tubular slide clasp.

For sale in the shop; more photos in the gallery.

Wide Fine Mesh Cuff

Circle's Edge Bracelet

A new design from Crescent Maille: the Circle’s Edge Bracelet.

Segments of Byzantine, a traditional weave made with modern square rings, link large “square” circles. Traditional and modern, classy and industrial, evocative of hardware. The Byzantine segments are about 1/4-inch in diameter (7mm), and the large rings are just under 1/2-inch in diameter (12mm). The rings are sterling silver & the bracelet closes with a large sterling silver lozenge clasp.

For sale in the shop; more photos in the gallery.

Circle's Edge Bracelet

Circle's Edge Bracelet

Square Half Persian 4-in-1

New to the Crescent Maille line — not the weave, but the type of ring it is made from. A beautiful weave, the Half Persian looks, head-on, quite serpentine. It looks totally different from the other angle, like herringbone, and is almost flat. The Half Persian 4-in-1 is notoriously difficult to weave, but well worth it. This variation is made from “square rings,” that is, rings made of square wire (see also the Square Byzantine bracelet). The bracelet is nearly 1/2-inch wide; substantial, industrial, it is equally suitable for a man or a woman.

For sale in the shop; more photos in the gallery.

Square Half Persian 4-in-1

Square Half Persian 4-in-1

This truly lovely weave is a very fine continuous spiral chain made of sterling silver “half round” rings; half round rings are like a cross-section of regular rings, rounded on the outside but flat on the inside. These rings keep the spiral weave locked in place in a way that regular rings cannot.

This bracelet is for sale in the Crescent Maille shop; more photos are in the gallery.

Spiral 6-in-1 Bracelet

Spiral 6-in-1 Bracelet

Spiral 6-in-1 Bracelet