In Europe [ edit ] Mail armour and equipment of Polish medium cavalryman, from the second half of the 17th century

The term chain mail has been around for a while. The OED's earliest citation is from 1822; using Google Books, I was able to find what seem to be even earlier examples:

Early medieval chainmail covered the body, later chainmail that also covered the head was also added. Large-linked mail is occasionally used as a fetish clothing material, with the large links intended to reveal – in part – the body beneath them. Dean, Bashford (1920). Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. New Haven: Yale University Press. p.133 . Retrieved 2023-10-12– via Library of Congress. Mail worn today for re-enactment and recreational use can be made in a variety of styles and materials. Most recreational mail today is made of butted links which are galvanised or stainless steel. This is historically inaccurate but is much less expensive to procure and especially to maintain than historically accurate reproductions. Mail can also be made of titanium, aluminium, bronze, or copper. Riveted mail offers significantly better protection ability as well as historical accuracy than mail constructed with butted links. Japanese mail ( kusari) is one of the few historically correct examples of mail being constructed with such butted links. [38] Decorative uses [ edit ] Major's shoulder chains A modern example of the use of mail, a bracelet using the roundmaille weave

Medieval chainmail has different names meaning the same thing, other common names are chain armor, ring armor, and mail. I love the photographs as they are very inspiring and with some of the projects which incorporate beads or coloured rings they are great on that aspect if you need any inspiration or ideas on how to do this. Main article: Kusari (Japanese mail armour) Edo period Japanese (samurai) chain armour or kusari gusoku So, I'm curious about the first attested objection to the term. How early is it, and who made it? What was the reason given, if any?Laufer, Berthold (1914-01-01). Notes on Turquois in the East. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. The first attestations of the word mail are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: maille, maile, or male or other variants, which became mailye, maille, maile, male, or meile in Middle English. [15] In early medieval Europe "byrn(ie)" was the equivalent of a "coat of mail" this quote from the translated reference of Sakakibara Kozan's 1800 book, The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth-Century Japan, shows that the Japanese not only knew of and used riveted kusari but that they manufactured it as well. Shark expert and underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor was among the first to develop and test shark suits in 1979 while diving with sharks. [55] Have you tried chain maille yet? You won’t want to miss my earlier blog about my first adventures in chain maille! And if you have a great tip or idea for anyone getting started with chain maille, be sure to post a comment here on the Beading Daily blog.

Richardson, T. (2011). "Armour in England, 1325–99". Journal of Medieval History. 37 (3): 304–320. doi: 10.1016/j.jmedhist.2011.06.001. S2CID 162329279. This armour is made by four rings joining a fifth, all of which are fastened with rivets. One row, indeed, on the hood, seems to double the number which would authorize the term double chain mail ; but as all the rest are as above described, the armour must be considered as the single chain mail. Yet mention is made in the Chronicle of Flanders of double chain mail, thus :

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Open your jump rings properly. This sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s important to remember. You don’t want your jump rings slipping apart after you’ve spent hours assembling an intricate piece of chain maille jewelry! You should always open your jump rings by twisting the ends apart, moving perpendicular to one another (north-south). Never open a jump ring by pulling the ends apart (east-west). Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III., edited by Sir John Fenn On the correct English front, as part of a section on how to distinguish between mail and male, Henry Hopkins, A Key to Exercises in Orthography and Exercises in Composition on an Improved Plan, second edition (1844) has this sentence: Horsfall, I. et al., "An Assessment of Human Performance in Stabbing", Forensic Science International, 102 (1999). pp. 79–89.