Chainmail Victorian Top: Work in Progress

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🛠 Work in Progress with my best friend Luxor:

I am currently working on a big chainmail top and it takes huge amount of time. Luckily, I love my job and also have a very sweet companion to work with.

Speaking about the top, I designed it as a Victorian piece in my mind, but I also improvise so I change some parts as I progress. Since there is no Ctrl+Z in chainmail, it takes quite much time to make those changes and arrangements. I am looking forward to seeing the final outcome and sharing it with you as well :)

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Working in Nature

Pin It Nature is my motivator, my cure, my joy and all the nice feelings that I can sense. So I prefer to work in green whenever I can. Here are some shots from my latest works, displayed in nature.

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Some New Designs from Xn Chainmail

Pin It Lately it seems I have the tendency to surround whatever I find by chainmail frames :) I hope you enjoy these new models of accessories I made by this technique. Please also feel free to leave me your opinions and suggestions:

You can check out my Instagram gallery for more designs

Coins from all around the world

My pliers are my best friends :)

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Latest Chainmail Mix by Xn

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Back to chainmail again. Here are some new stuff I made in the past weeks: A shoulder piece (originally aimed to be a bra but I like the sudden change of ideas), some new pendants and a Byzantine medallion.

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İŞİNİ SEV! / LOVE YOUR JOB!

Pin It A friend of mine (Bilge Can Gürer) became a partner with (Duygu Aynur) in a very interesting and in my opinion helpful organisation called "İşinisev". It means "love your job" and their motto is: Let your dream be your job. They basicly pick role-models for each occupation and make a video-interview followed by a photo-shooting.

So one day he kindly asked me to be one of their role-models as a chainmail armor and accessory designer. It was both flattering and an exciting experience for me because I am really bad at moving infront of the camera :)

I tried to describe my job, 'how to do's, the good sides, the difficult parts, some hints, shortly, any kind of information that might be helpful to the people who are thinking about choosing accessory designing as their jobs.

I have no idea what the final interview video will look like :) but my personal page is as follows:

https://www.isinisev.com/rol-modeller/ilksen-baysaling

The web site is in Turkish for now but for those who are interested, here is the link:

https://www.isinisev.com

Instagram: @isinisev

A shot from my interview

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New Chainmail Patterns: "Scherzo" - "Rosetta" - "Serpent's Spine"

Pin It The best part of making chainmail is to be able to learn tens, even hundreds of different patterns changing from culture to culture. I also try to practise as much patterns as I can. Here are the latest ones I made:

"Scherzo" - "Rosetta" - "Serpent's Spine"

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METUCON 2016 - APOCALYPSE

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---Chainmail By Xn was in "Metucon 2016 - Apocalypse" along with her armors and dragons---

As some of you may know, Metucon is a 20 year-old convention taking place in one of the most well-established universities of Turkey, Middle East Technical University. It attracts the attention of science-fiction and fantasy literature lovers along with frp (fantasy role play) addicts. 

In this year's convention, I also took place as my brand "Chainmail by Xn" and shared some of my handmade works with the visitors there. It was both an enjoyable experience and a big chance to exchange ideas with new people with similar tastes. Here are some of the pictures from that weekend. 

--The poster of this year's convention--

--Hello ladies and gentlemen--

--One section of my display--

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For Men This Time.. (Or Maybe For Women As Well:)

Pin It       Why not making a different accessory for men? Chainmail necktie is on the stage this time. Actually I can use it as a woman as well but the coolest version would be with a dark suit in my opinion.

Btw many thanks to my brother who is modelling me :)

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New Episode: Chainmail Animals - 1: Snake

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