51 Fall, 513 AV
With rings made and cut it was time to start on the first section of chain and he had decided on a simple box design. He’d contemplated various forms of sheet chain and in linking them together but the more had thought about it, the more a simple curtain of individual chains appealed to him.
The weave was simple enough, at least once he had reminded himself of it with a little practice. He started with a section of six into two, which meant that it was just a simple double chain that even his apprentices could have handled without thought. Next he folded back the end two rings and then separated the middle two rings. This allowed him the space to insert two more rings into what was effectively the back side of the two end rings that he had folded back. With those inserted the box nature of the chain was starting to appear, and now he was able to continue folding back the end rings, spreading the middle rings and inserting once more.
Once he had reminded himself of the pattern, and it always took a few attempts to get his fingers to slip into the patterns of movements that the weaving required the the work progressed quickly, the main thing that slowed him down being the need to close the rings each time that he added a new pair. This was the sort of job that he imagined to be the male equivalent of knitting and the comparison always amused him, but he could well imagine sitting in a darkened room with just the light of a fire glowing redly and casting glints from the metal while his fingers automatically slipped rings in and closed them. In truth it wasn’t so dissimilar here where the light came from the forge and the darkened room which was still quiet before the morning rush in the castle as it awoke. He also found a degree of amusement in the realisation that this work, intended to solve the issue of noise was also quiet and doubtless his closer neighbours offered prayers of thanks for a night of undisturbed sleep as a result.
The work was relatively tedious and he was tempted to pass it on to someone else to do, especially since such a simple weave would be a good training for them, and at any other time he might well have followed up on the idea but he had a feeling in the back of his mind that this process, tedious as it was, was also a form of meditation which allowed him to brush very closely on the states for the use of djed, regardless of whether that was for personal, world or divine djed use and that was in itself an interesting discovery for it opened once more in his mind the question of how chain might be used as a basis for some interesting djed effects by making use of the way that the metal was interwoven. Success in that could lead to some very interesting possibilities going forward which were possibly applicable to weapons as much as armour.
With rings made and cut it was time to start on the first section of chain and he had decided on a simple box design. He’d contemplated various forms of sheet chain and in linking them together but the more had thought about it, the more a simple curtain of individual chains appealed to him.
The weave was simple enough, at least once he had reminded himself of it with a little practice. He started with a section of six into two, which meant that it was just a simple double chain that even his apprentices could have handled without thought. Next he folded back the end two rings and then separated the middle two rings. This allowed him the space to insert two more rings into what was effectively the back side of the two end rings that he had folded back. With those inserted the box nature of the chain was starting to appear, and now he was able to continue folding back the end rings, spreading the middle rings and inserting once more.
Once he had reminded himself of the pattern, and it always took a few attempts to get his fingers to slip into the patterns of movements that the weaving required the the work progressed quickly, the main thing that slowed him down being the need to close the rings each time that he added a new pair. This was the sort of job that he imagined to be the male equivalent of knitting and the comparison always amused him, but he could well imagine sitting in a darkened room with just the light of a fire glowing redly and casting glints from the metal while his fingers automatically slipped rings in and closed them. In truth it wasn’t so dissimilar here where the light came from the forge and the darkened room which was still quiet before the morning rush in the castle as it awoke. He also found a degree of amusement in the realisation that this work, intended to solve the issue of noise was also quiet and doubtless his closer neighbours offered prayers of thanks for a night of undisturbed sleep as a result.
The work was relatively tedious and he was tempted to pass it on to someone else to do, especially since such a simple weave would be a good training for them, and at any other time he might well have followed up on the idea but he had a feeling in the back of his mind that this process, tedious as it was, was also a form of meditation which allowed him to brush very closely on the states for the use of djed, regardless of whether that was for personal, world or divine djed use and that was in itself an interesting discovery for it opened once more in his mind the question of how chain might be used as a basis for some interesting djed effects by making use of the way that the metal was interwoven. Success in that could lead to some very interesting possibilities going forward which were possibly applicable to weapons as much as armour.
