17 Facts About Chain mail

Chain mail is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.

Since then the word Chain mail has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in plate-Chain mail .

Civilizations that used Chain mail invented specific terms for each garment made from it.

The standard terms for European Chain mail armour derive from French: leggings are called chausses, a hood is a Chain mail coif, and mittens, mitons.

The riveted Chain mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.

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Also during World War I, a Chain mail fringe, designed by Captain Cruise of the British Infantry, was added to helmets to protect the face.

Indian Chain mail was constructed with alternating rows of solid links and round riveted links and it was often integrated with plate protection .

However, when Chain mail was riveted, only a strong well-placed thrust from certain spears, or thin or dedicated Chain mail-piercing swords like the estoc, could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.

Up until the 14th century European Chain mail was made of alternating rows of round riveted rings and solid rings.

Sometime during the 14th century European Chain mail makers started to transition from round rivets to wedge shaped rivets but continued using alternating rows of solid rings.

Scuba divers sometimes use Chain mail to protect them from sharkbite, as do animal control officers for protection against the animals they handle.

Electrical applications for Chain mail include RF leakage testing and being worn as a Faraday cage suit by tesla coil enthusiasts and high voltage electrical workers.

Riveted Chain mail offers significantly better protection ability as well as historical accuracy than Chain mail constructed with butted links.

Japanese Chain mail is one of the few historically correct examples of Chain mail being constructed with such butted links.

Large-linked Chain mail is occasionally used as a fetish clothing material, with the large links intended to reveal – in part – the body beneath them.

Such ABS Chain mail coats were made for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, in addition to many metal coats.

European wedge riveted Chain mail, showing both sides of the rings, 16th to 17th century.