Yesterday marked Jenn’s last day with us here at the shop. Starting Monday she will be back at school continuing her college education, and we wish her nothing but the best.
While she will not be physically here with us, she has agreed to keep working with us remotely. Starting next week she will be taking over most of the writing for our blog, newsletters, and facebook posts. She will also be working on some special projects for us.
Keep your eyes peeled, we have some cool stuff coming up for you.
And remember, It’s in the Maille!
I’ve got a name!
First, thanks to everybody who participated in our “I need a name” contest. We had a lot of great suggestions and there were a number of them that stood out to me, but I decided to go with “Acute Helm” as was suggested by Christy. I’m still not sure what I will call the variant, but we are tossing around ideas here.
There was also another suggestion that as soon as I saw it I knew it was perfect for the other new weave that I mentioned but didn’t post a picture of.
You can see it has a very wavy look to it. I had in my head that I wanted to name it something to do with water, so Jill’s suggestion of Hydroglyph just seemed perfect to me.
Christy and Jill I will contact you shortly to see which one you would like.
For everybody else who was interested in the original pattern, tutorials (both hardcopy and downloadable) are up in the store. BA/AA and Argentium and niobium kits should be up by tomorrow.
Remember, It’s In the Maille!
We are always playing with our square wire rings to find more uses for them and pass that information on to you. So today is the first of the updates.
Japanese Bulls eye is a pattern by our friend Rebeca over at Blue Buddha Boutique. I have always liked this pattern, and have come up with sizes in our square rings that will work for it.
These will use 16-K, 18-I and 20-C square rings. You can also find kits for them in our shop here.
I have also confirmed that using 16-K, 18-K and 20-K rings will give you a nice graduated full persian pattern that looks great as an earring or pendant.
I have also confirmed that a 20-M argentium square ring used in combination with a 20g 1/8″ niobium ring makes a wonderful dragonscale. The shine of the colors bouncing off the argentium is amazing.
Inspired by a customer who sent us a picture of one she had done, Jenn put together a dragontail bracelet that uses 18-K square argentium and 18g 5/32″ niobium. We also have a kit for this bracelet here.
We will get all of these added to our square wire weave chart very soon.
There is a new sports team in town! The Rocky Mountain Riot is a co-ed, banked track roller derby team. We were contacted by them a couple of weeks ago and asked to help out with a fundraiser. My brother in law is on the team, so I figured why not. Not to mention the fact that we like roller derby anyway. So we donated a bunch of keychains and cellphone charms to put in goody bags that were handed out at the event today, and a square stainless steel Gridlock byzantine bracelet that went in silent auction.
Because I can’t do anything the easy way, I also decided to make a new top, that Jenn ended up sporting. It was a beautiful day for it.
We also brought a few of our glow in the dark chainmaille hacky sacks, which were a hit. There was lots of food, 5 live bands, and a good time for all.
I don’t know who this little dude was, but he kept changing wigs and corsets and walking around saying his name was “Juanita”. He was a hoot.
And since we did this for the team, I can’t leave you without a team picture.
They are having another event next weekend, so if you are in the area, come on out.
http://www.rockymountainriot.com/
We have been busy upgrading the website. You will see many new changes to the site as compared to the old site. There are some minor cosmetic changes, but we have also consolidated many ring listings to make shopping much easier. If you haven’t been to our site before, some of the categories were a little disorganized. Now, they are much more organized and I for one am liking the way everything seems to flow. You will find it is much more convenient to shop than ever before!
New rings, wait, don’t leave yet! I haven’t told you what rings. Are you ready? We have added Argentium silver and 14K Gold Filled rings. While we do have limited sizes right now, rest assured we are hard at work cutting more. We have also added several sizes of 18g Niobium rings. While we are on the subject of Niobium, you will notice that we have all of our 20g back in stock and decided that while we were making rings we would add a couple of new sizes.
We have also added a number of new sizes in base metals, and we will continue to do so as we get them made.
Over the course of the next few days, we will be putting some rings on clearance including Sterling silver, as we have decided to only make Argentium.
While we have fully tested the new store, I’ve never claimed to be perfect. If you find something out of place, let us know so we can get it taken care of.
We hope you like the new look and layout and welcome any comments/suggestions you may have.
And remember,It’s in the Maille.
We have been working hard to bring you even more square wire ring designs. Today we have publish a F.A.Q page, a weave chart complete with ring counts and pictures of all the patterns we have put together, and added 13 new rings. Over the course of the next few days you will see even more new rings, and even more new patterns. If there is a specific pattern you would like to see, let us know and we will see what we can come up with.
Remember, It’s in the Maille!
As seen in the February/March issue of Step by Step wire jewelry, you can find square wire rings for the Byzantine variants here, or have a look in our specialty section for all of our shaped wire patterns. All rings can also be done in silver or gold fill by special request.
All of our rings can also be purchased at the Bead Corner in Monument Colorado, or from Aussie Maille in Australia.
And remember, It’s in the Maille.
We are always working hard to improve our products for you, and are happy to announce our next step.
While we do anodize our own niobium and titanium, anodizing for aluminum is very different and we are unable to do it. We have been working with a couple different companies to get a better finish and color and we are happy to say we have found two that can do just that. Here is a look of two different colors in both old and new.
Turquoise AA
Red AA
The new rings have a nice glossy finish to them. They almost look “chromed”. As more of our stock is replaced with the new AA we will make note of it on each listing, with the colors.
We have plans to add a couple new colors to each size we currently have, as well as adding at least one new size that you won’t find anywhere else.
Remember, It’s in the Maille!
Can you believe the year is over already. It sure has gone fast.
We’d like to thank all our wonderful customers, friends and family for a great year.
To help ring in the New Year, we have a special treat. Be our first customer and get 25% off your order. Here is how it works.
Use coupon code ctnew at checkout
Coupon will not be valid until midnight EST, so try as you might, it won’t work until then.
Coupon only has 1 use, so unless you are the first, again it won’t work.
It’s pretty much just that easy.
We hope everybody has a safe new year, and remember, It’s in the Maille!
As an update for anybody reading this late, the coupon has been used
With the long holiday weekend, and the influx of orders that come this time of year, we have already begun to have slight shipping delays. We do understand you want/need your orders as fast as you can get them (hey, we’re the same way) and are doing our best to make that happen for you.
If you need to know when your order may ship, please feel free to contact us and we should be able to give you and ETA.
And remember, It’s in the Maille!
