Chain Mail Techniques from the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Addendum containing more chain mail knitting patterns by Martha A. Marking

By Jeffrey Lieder, knitting patterns by Martha A. Marking

Article published in TD&T, volume 39, number 3, Summer 2003.

Addendum published on the USITT Web site 11 August 2003.

Included in the article were two knitting patterns -- Chain Mail Cowl and Chain Mail Hood. Several additional patterns created by Martha Marking are published here. Click on links below.

CHAIN MAIL BRAIES (PANTS)
Ankle Length Version
(33" inseam/ 41"outseam)

CHAIN MAIL BRAIES (PANTS)
Mid-Calf Length Version
(30" inseam)

CHAIN MAIL COWL
Slim Version

CHAIN MAIL HOOD
Short Version

CHAIN MAIL SKIRT
(For use with Spandex body)

CHAIN MAIL SLEEVES
(For use with Spandex body)

CHAIN MAIL TUNIC WITH SLEEVES
Chest 38-40, (42-44)

Author's Bios.

Jeffrey Lieder is Costume Director at the Utah Shakespearean Festival and has supervised more than 100 productions during the past eighteen seasons. He is also Associate Professor and Head of Costume Production at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He doesn't know how to knit.

Martha A. Marking is Costume Designer for the Greenshow and the Royal Feaste at the Utah Shakespearean Festival and Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of Design/Technology Program at Appalachian state University in Boone, North Carolina. She is an expert knitter.

Both are active members of USITT.