I will post pictures of the progress interspersed with a few comments on ideas and discovery's I had and found while making this shirt. I am still busy with it and have been working on it now for a little under a month.
As you can see I am using and old shirt as the template for the maille. This is easier to do than just to make it to fit as a shirt has already been measures and proportioned. It will also make a nice undershirt for the maille so as to make it easier to put on and take off.
Round about here I realised that I had been doing the weave the wrong way and that rather than have the rows run vertically they needed to be running horizontally due to the fact that the expansion of 4-1 maille is in the same direction as the was the rows run and thus in a shirt the expansion needs to be horizontal rather than vertical due to breathing expanding the chest and shoulders.
At this point it weighs just over 1kg and I have estimated the final product will be just over 12kg in total.
I can now wear the shirt as I have added the back to the neck but it is not exactly elegant at the moment as the outside edges flap around. It now weighs 2kg and the front panel from shoulder to shoulder is almost done.
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