For your chance to win either a pair of sterling silver Clover Earrings or a $30 gift certificate to cMaille.etsy.com, just leave a comment on Crescent Maille’s January Shadowbox page on the blog etsystalker.com. You can enter as often as once a day to increase your chances of winning. The winner will be chosen randomly from all entries on February 9th. Good luck!
At the request of a customer about the possibility of including a pendant on a Byzantine chain, I developed this new necklace: “Spiral Captured in Byzantine.” This unique and beautiful necklace features a fine byzantine chain bisected by a “captured” mobius spiral. Lovely for dressing up, yet subtle enough for daily wear, it makes a quiet statement of elegance.
The spiral, made of 4 rings woven through the centers of one another, is suspended from a 16-inch Byzantine Weave chain (also known as the Birdcage Weave). The chain is created from 21 gauge rings and just 1/8-inch wide (4mm); the spiral itself is just about 3/8-inch wide (15mm, about the diameter of a penny). The necklace fastens with a simple toggle clasp. Made entirely from sterling silver. Available at the Etsy shop.
The Square Spiral Necklace and the Square Jens Pind Necklace: two new designs from Crescent Maille, available at the Etsy shop (as well as the cMaille Prêt-à-Porter Shop).
The Square Spiral Necklace is a different take on Crescent Maille’s classic Spiral Necklace: A fine cable chain is strung with five mobius links made of square wire rings. These links are made up of either 2 or 3 rings woven through the centers of one another to resemble endless spirals. The spiral is about 1/2-inch in diameter (13mm), 3/4-inch wide on the chain (20mm), and the chain is 18 inches long. Made entirely of sterling silver.
The Square Jens Pind necklace features a 3-inch segment of the Jens Pind weave constructed from square wire rings, suspended from cable chain. The facets of the rings catch the light, angular and sparkling; it’s modern and industrial, yet subtle and minimalist. The square rings are 18 gauge, and the segment is 1/4-inch wide (5mm). The cable chain is made of 2.5mm round links, and the necklace is a total of 16 inches long. Made entirely from sterling silver.
Over the past week, I’ve added three new items to my shops: a bracelet, a necklace, and a pair of earrings. All three are available at cMaille2; the earrings are also available at cMaille on Etsy and 1000 Markets.
The Sunset to Twilight Bracelet: This one of a kind chain maille bracelet features three chains in the Jens Pind weave made from luxurious metallic colors of anodized niobium. Colors range from bright sunset hues to deep twilight tones. They secured with a gold fill toggle clasp. The colors? One chain is composed of sunset colors (bright yellow, golden-orange, salmon, apricot, fuchsia, royal purple, and iridescent dark teal), and one of twilight colors (navy blue, midnight blue, deep plum, eggplant, coffee brown, milk chocolate, steel, and graphite); the center chain is graduated from sunset to twilight.
The Golden Ring Necklace: Several graphite-colored anodized niobium rings create a loop at the bottom of a sterling silver snake chain, from which hangs a single lovely, substantial gold fill ring. Subtle; a quiet statement and a mix of calm complementary colors. Unusual & unique.
Clover Earrings: These small, delicate earrings — each one segment of the chain maille “barrel weave” — are made of sterling silver rings hanging from Bali silver earwires. The “clover” segment (doesn’t it resemble a four leaf clover?) is 1/2-inch long and 1/4-inch wide (12mm, 7mm). The length of the earring from the top of the wire is 7/8-inch (22mm). The earwires are small and secure.
Holiday shopping? Please be sure to click this link to read a post regarding holiday shopping and to stay up-to-date on all the latest deadlines. For example, sales from the original Crescent Maille on Etsy (cMaille) must be made in November to guarantee delivery. cMaille2, the Prêt-à-Porter Shop, will be shipping through December. Thank you!
On the heels of the Four-Strand Jens Pind bracelet comes this, the Square Wire Jens Pind. The rings are made from square wire, wire with “corners,” rather than the typical jump ring. These unique rings lend themselves to all types of interesting plays on traditional designs. It’s a marvelous look, with the facets of the rings catching the light, angular and sparkling; modern, industrial, yet in no way over-the-top.
The rings are 18 gauge, and the bracelet is 1/4-inch wide (5mm). Made entirely from sterling silver, it closes with a sterling lobster clasp.
Currently available at the Crescent Maille shops on Etsy and 1000 Markets.
A new bracelet design to unveil: The Four-Strand Jens Pind. This luxurious bracelet groups four fine strands of the Jens Pind chain side by side on a slide clasp. It is delicate and elegant — suitable for dressing up, yet also restrained and subtle enough for every day wear.
Over one troy ounce of rings go into a 7.5 inch bracelet. Each strand is 1/8-inch wide (3mm). Together the strands are about 3/4-inch wide on the 1-inch clasp (25mm). The Four-Strand Jens Pind Bracelet is made entirely from sterling silver; it closes with a sterling tubular slide clasp.
Currently available at the Crescent Maille shops on Etsy and 1000 Markets.
Two new designs were listed today at the Crescent Maille Prêt-à-Porter Shop (”Ready-to-Ship, Ready-to-Wear Jewelry”). The first is a collection of colorful (for Crescent Maille!) chain maille “bangles.” These bracelets are thin (1/8-inch) jens pind bracelets made of anodized niobium. Best worn in a group. Tangling is advised. Four color palettes are available:
• Browns: A mix of two colors; one is like milk chocolate, the other is like coffee with an occasional shimmer of plum.
• Blues: Midnight, deep eggplant, navy, light and ice blue.
• Earth: graphite, steel, milk chocolate, coffee brown, plus a bit of midnight blue and deep eggplant.
• Earth & Sea: A mix of all the above: about 70% “Earth,” 20% “Blues,” and 10% “Browns.”
Second is a Jens Pind bracelet made of Jewelry Brass. Jewelry Brass is really lovely, with a nice weight, and looks remarkably like gold fill. It’s not yellow brass — it has a higher copper content than yellow brass, it is darker, warmer, and richer. All five bracelets are extremely affordable at $30–$35, with free shipping.
For the month of October, the Crescent Maille Special (at Etsy, 1000 Markets, ArtFire, and Zibbet) is the beautiful Snake Weave bracelet — also known as Roundmaille.
Almost 500 rings are woven into this Snake Weave bracelet. The Snake weave is also known as Roundmaille, and is based on the European 4-in-1 weave. It is incredibly fluid and flexible and perfectly conforms to one’s wrist. It’s utterly luxurious. The rings used in this bracelet are 21 gauge, and about 4.5mm in diameter; the bracelet is 1/4-inch wide (7mm). This Snake Weave bracelet is made from entirely from sterling silver, and closes with a lobster clasp.
Usually $195, all month long it will be available for $150 — that’s almost 25% off. This isn’t a one-bracelet offer — the special is good on this particular item all month, no matter how many sell.
I started the independent shop in August, and I’m slowly adding items over time, as I have time. However, I’m simultaneously managing the blog, the gallery, and numerous other shopping venues — and that’s not including crafting, packaging and shipping orders…
During the busy holiday season, I’m putting this shop in hibernation; might I suggest you try one of the other venues listed below for your Crescent Maille shopping.
Please note: except for the Prêt-à-Porter Store, all items are made to order. This means, please do your holiday shopping EARLY. Thank you! Purchases made during November will deliver in time for the December holidays. Purchases made in December may not be able to deliver in time. Once I receive a certain number of orders I’ll have to put a hold on any custom items, to ensure that I’m able to ship the orders I have in time for the holidays.
Gift certificates in any denomination are available at the Etsy shop, and make great last minute gifts.
Crescent Maille Jewelry can be found at the following locations:
Etsy :: cMaille.etsy.com ~ the entire collection is always here. New items are added to Etsy before any other shop. Currently selected items, including all bracelets are 10% off.* PayPal accepted (no PayPal account required; you can use a credit card).
Etsy :: cMaille2.etsy.com ~ the Prêt-à-Porter Store — Ready-to-Ship, Ready-to-Wear Jewelry. Jewelry ready to ship the next day; includes lower-price-point bracelets made from jewelry brass + sterling, colored niobium, etc. Excellent for fast or last-minute shopping needs. PayPal accepted (no PayPal account required; you can use a credit card). Shipping of these items will continue throughout December; certain non-sized items from the regular store (like necklaces) are also available here, ready-made.
1000 Markets :: cMaille.1000markets.com ~ I’m building up the collection there over time. Amazon Payments accepted (you just use your regular Amazon account, no extra account needed).
Zibbet :: zibbet.com/cMaille ~ I’m building up the collection there over time, though it it the shop that lags the most. PayPal accepted (no PayPal account required; you can use a credit card).
ArtFire :: cMaille.artfire.com ~ I’m building up the collection there over time. PayPal & Amazon Payments accepted. No ArtFire account necessary to shop. (No PayPal account required; you can use a credit card.)
ArtFire Kiosk on Facebook :: shop right from Crescent Maille’s Facebook page, without ever leaving Facebook! No accounts necessary. Whatever is available at the ArtFire store is available through the Kiosk.
Crescent Maille is a vendor at the I Heart Handmade online marketplace through December 19. All items on that site link directly to my Etsy shop, but if you click through from I Heart Handmade, and mention “IHH” at checkout, you’ll receive a 5% discount on all regularly priced items.*
Don’t forget: shipping is always free, including international shipping to several countries, and all items come gift-ready in a round metal tin & tissue paper.
*Discounts are subject to change at the discretion of Crescent Maille; always check the verbiage at the actual site, in case I forget to update this post.
