We are excited to debut our premium anodized aluminum scales. Actually, we debuted them at the Bead&Button show, but they were such a hit that we nearly sold out and had to rebuild our stock before putting them on the website! These scales are simply unbelievable – brilliant, shiny and full-coverage (so yes, even the… Read more »
Last week, M.A.I.L. announced the winner of their 11th Theme Contest, and we were blown away. The topic was Unconventional and/or Useful Maille. Leave it to David Austin of ChainmailBasket.com to put together a CD rack. In 56 days. !!! Wowza! There are more than 11,000 rings used in 7 different sizes. Two main weaves:… Read more »
We have to give a big shout-out to Vanessa for winning the Fashion.Fantasy.Music.Magic. themed Fashion Fever contest with her dragon inspired dress (modeled by Vanessa herself below.) Kudos to an ingenious use of 48 hours and $100! Read more about the contest here and check out Vanessa’s blog to get the inside information about her… Read more »
Our summer intern Sam recently got to know the Bulls Eye weave very, very intimately. The image at left shows large version with T14 turquoise, P16 blue, F18 for the center “bulls eye” and I18 connecting the bulls eye to the turquoise rings. We’ll probably make some aluminum earrings with this size because they’ll still… Read more »
A customer asked us if the Celtic Visions Star was possible with rubber rings, so we had intern Angelique do some futzing. Here are the results. We know that some of you rubber fanatics will want to make zillions of these. They look cool, but Angelique warns that they are very, VERY tight. So proceed… Read more »
