Ready for Battle: Make Your Own Chain Mail Armour von Steffen Schnee

Whether it is for larp, theater production, living history event or other related hobbys, with your own hauberk, coife, trousers or other chain mail objects you are ready for battle. But how do you create a customfit pattern for your own chain mail? What needs to be considered while making chain rings? And what are the best techniques for weaving thousands of rings together? These and other questions will be answered by the author step by step and with fully illustrated instructions. The reader learns the practicalities of how to transform a roll of wire into a chain mail armour.

Steff en Schnee, born 1977, studied business computer science and works as a project manager in a software company in Friedrichshafen, Germany. But for more than ten years, he also has been an enthusiastic, an enthusiastic live role player and a medieval actor with a lot of expert knowledge about the making of chain mail armour. His expertise stems from several years of experience and experimentation with various materials, patterns and shapes of hauberks and other objects from chain mail.