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Folds / Crushing / Bunching in Chainmail

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This is just a quick picture followup to my chainmail tutorial.

When I made that original Tutorial I had never made real chainmail before. Just like many people will never make real chainmail when they try to draw it.

So I wanted to point out a couple things.

A&B - This is probably the direction the chainmail SHOULD lay if you were wearing chainmail. Why? Because in the direction when you bend you arm you can see that the chain mail naturally compresses together. Thus making it easier for you to bend your arm.

C&D -  If you wore chainmail in this direction, and you had a whole sleeve of it... You wouldn't be able to bend your arm properly, thus wouldn't be able to swing your sword or defend yourself properly. If you notice when you bend your arm when the chainmail is laid in that direction, it acts like fabric in the way it folds. Once that bunches up a certain amount, you wouldn't be able to bend any farther.

So that is my quick explanation of chainmail bunching.
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I think I agree, but for some reason in movies I see C/D pattern and their sleeves have lower wire/link diameter aspect ratio than yours. One thing better is "hugging" around arm, so maybe their sleeve is wider than it seems -and this is another thing important for free movement. My chainmail sleeve is 50cm at shoulder and 30 at wrist with 4 to 1 ratio (wire 1,5mm, inner link diameter 6mm), looks like bag of potatoes and still sometimes bend only to a bit more than 90 degrees with A/B pattern.

For decorative purposes I would choose C/D, it is more aesthetic imo.