Hi everyone,
I'm making Lady Sifs armor from Thor: The Dark World, I've been looking up ways of making chain mail and I'm hoping you guys can tell me from experience if knitted "chain mail" ever looks any good.
I've made some real chain mail that is posing as an under shirt (you can only see the collar area so that's all I made) and that's working fine but it just cost too much to consider making a full skirt which is what I need now (and honestly the process/time just killed my back and wrists!)
I've put so much time into this costume that I really don't want to ruin it all with a rubbish looking under skirt.
as you can see in the images below the chain mail goes under the leather skirt so its only partially visible.
I have tried PVC rings cut from pipe but it just looks really chunky even when I use the smallest pipe I can find and my armor is quite snug so I think it may be quite uncomfortable for the portion that would be around my waist under the armor, also I used pretty small rings (5mm) for the section of shirt I made so I think it might look strangely large in comparison.
I know nothing can quite match the real thing but if it's near enough I think I could be happy, Ideally I'd want something that could sort of blend in with the chainmail I made in this image:
has anyone used knitting as a chain mail option? if so were you happy with it? did it hang right or look weird?
if anyone has pictures to share I'd love to see it! or if you have a better suggestion I'm all ears,
and one last thing if anyone's still reading this, I was considering just making panels of real mail to fill in the gaps in the outer leather skirt do you reckon that would work? sort of as if it were pleated with alternating leather and chain mail, it would still be more work than knitting but less time and money than a full skirt, anyone reckon that could look good?
sorry if this has ben asked before but I could find any specific chain mail threads when I searched.
look forward to hearing from you,
Izzy
I'm making Lady Sifs armor from Thor: The Dark World, I've been looking up ways of making chain mail and I'm hoping you guys can tell me from experience if knitted "chain mail" ever looks any good.
I've made some real chain mail that is posing as an under shirt (you can only see the collar area so that's all I made) and that's working fine but it just cost too much to consider making a full skirt which is what I need now (and honestly the process/time just killed my back and wrists!)
I've put so much time into this costume that I really don't want to ruin it all with a rubbish looking under skirt.
as you can see in the images below the chain mail goes under the leather skirt so its only partially visible.
I have tried PVC rings cut from pipe but it just looks really chunky even when I use the smallest pipe I can find and my armor is quite snug so I think it may be quite uncomfortable for the portion that would be around my waist under the armor, also I used pretty small rings (5mm) for the section of shirt I made so I think it might look strangely large in comparison.
I know nothing can quite match the real thing but if it's near enough I think I could be happy, Ideally I'd want something that could sort of blend in with the chainmail I made in this image:
has anyone used knitting as a chain mail option? if so were you happy with it? did it hang right or look weird?
if anyone has pictures to share I'd love to see it! or if you have a better suggestion I'm all ears,
and one last thing if anyone's still reading this, I was considering just making panels of real mail to fill in the gaps in the outer leather skirt do you reckon that would work? sort of as if it were pleated with alternating leather and chain mail, it would still be more work than knitting but less time and money than a full skirt, anyone reckon that could look good?
sorry if this has ben asked before but I could find any specific chain mail threads when I searched.
look forward to hearing from you,
Izzy