A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
ARTLAB
Twenty years of tips and advice from the Urban Maille workbench: weaves, ring math, techniques, care and finishing, and the business side of making chainmaille jewelry.
Copper Jewelry: In Our Customers' Own Words
Over the years, many of you have told me why you love wearing copper, and some of the stories are too good not to...
The Perfect Ring
What Makes This Ring So Perfect? First, it's a ring. Years ago, a well known wire work author asked me to recommend weaves and...
Lindstrom / Tronex: A Saga
...and why all the Tronex? We began seeing certain quality control issues with certain models of the Lindstroms we carried after Lindstrom moved manufacturing...
Why Professionals Buy Our Rings
Note: The following information is meant for people who are in the business, or plan to be in the business, of making and selling...
Spontaneous Design
Whenever I have a new design pictured in my mind or when I want to work out the perfect ring sizes for a particular...
About Our Metals
These are the metals we use at Urban Maille to manufacture the very best jump rings for chainmaille jewelry, since 2003.
Converting Imperial Sizes to Metric
inches mm mm (.00) 1 64 0.015625 0.396875 0.4 1 32 0.03125 0.79375 0.79 3 64 0.046875 1.190625 1.19 1 16 0.0625 1.5875 1.59...
Dealing with Design Theft at Shows
Today I was talking to Bill (who works here) and he was telling me about this show he did once (he's a blacksmith) at...
Ring Knots
These knots are really nice for slipping over the neck of a wrapped loop to add weight to the transition between the bead and...
More On Pricing
I've had several questions lately on pricing and, while replying to one asking whether $175 is a good price for a bracelet, my answer...
Taking Care of the Baby
One of the unexpectedly interesting things we've discovered in running this business has to do with how extraordinarily flexible we have to be with...
Minding Your Business
Every small business person is intimately familiar with the concept of wearing many different hats. My business card could quite accurately and honestly list...
