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Chain Mail Bracelet
With Polymer Clay-, Bone- And Freshwater pearl Charms

Chain mail can be a real challenge sometimes. Getting all the jump rings fitting into each other the right way can be really tricky, as you have to hold them in a certain position in order to slide the next ring through.

Luckily not all the techniques are equally difficult, like the technique used for this bracelet. If you are in need of a chain, you can use to make one, and you do not have to solder them.

The most important thing with making chain mail jewelry is to close the rings properly. If they are not, the rings may slip apart or the charms you add may fall off. If you buy jump rings, they should close just fine, but if you make your own by using a wire cutter, the slanted edge may cause the rings to close poorly, unless you pay extra caution. If you saw them, you should do fine, but it takes a lot of work and is quite hard on your fingers. No matter what you use, make sure that they close as well as you can get them.

Another important thing when making chain mail is to have the right tools for the work. You need two chain nose pliers in order to open and close the rings. You can see how to do that in this tutorial:
Want To Make Your Own Jump Rings? It’s Very Easy

So, do you have your tools ready? OK, let’s begin making your chain mail bracelet.

What you need:

5 mm jump rings 20 gauge
3 mm jump rings 22 gauge
Two chain nose pliers
Round nose pliers
Silver wire, 22 gauge, dead soft
Silver wire, 20 gauge, half hard
3 mm round silver beads
Silver bead caps
8 mm freshwater pearls
8 mm bone beads
Small sized polymer clay beads

You can see how the polymer clay beads used in this tutorial was made in this tutorial:
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	Step 1: Start by joining two 5 mm jump rings.
	Step 2: Add another through both of the rings, and then a fourth through all three. Arrange the rings so that they form a chain mail rosette. If you find it hard to get them right, it may help to just drop them onto your work surface. They then tend to arrange themselves the way you want them to.
	Step 3: Put a 3 mm jump ring through the rosette and put it aside.
	Step 4: Make another rosette, like you did the first, put a small jump ring through it and then join the two rosettes with a small jump ring going through the other two small rings.
	Step 5: Slide a 5 mm jump ring through the two small ones on the rosettes so that it lies over the small ring joining them. Repeat these steps until the chain reach your desired length.
	Step 6: Cut a 4-5 cm length of the 22 gauge silver wire. Make a loop in one end with the round nose pliers. Slide on a silver bead, a bead cap, a polymer clay bead, a bead cap and a silver bead. Close with a wrapped loop. Make as many of this charm as you need to add one to every other of the rings you added in step 5.
	Step 7: Cut a 4 cm length of 22 gauge wire and make a loop in one end. Slide on a silver bead, a bead cap, a bone bead, a bead cap and a silver bead. Close with a wrapped loop. The bead caps embrace the bead on one side, but faces away on the other side of the bead. Make as many as you need to add one to every other of the rings you added in step 5.
	Step 8: Cut a 4 cm length of 22 gauge wire and make a loop in one end. Slide on a silver bead, a bead cap, a pearl, a bead cap and a silver bead. Close with a wrapped loop. Again the bead caps hug the bead on one side, and face away from it on the other side. Make as many as you made in step 7.
	Step 9: Add the charms to the chain with 5 mm jump rings. The pearl- and bone charms on the same ring on one side of the chain and the polymer clay charms on the other side.
	Step 10: Make the clasp by cutting a 8 mm length of the half hard wire. Make a loop in one end. Hold on to the loop and bend the wire around an object like a mandrel, pen or something similar. (The diameter of the object decides how large the clasp will be. I used a 5,5 mm mandrel on mine) When shaped, roll the wire up into a flat spiral on the other end. Attach a 5 mm jump ring through the spiral and add it to the chain. Add a 5 mm jump ring through the last rosette on the other end of the chain.