Weathering Your Maille

If you want your chainmail shirt to look worn out, that's definitely possible!

You can use a pair of pliers or wire cutters to remove bits of mail around the bottom, so it looks "torn" and damaged. You can also use this method to create holes in different parts of the chainmail shirt.

Another great way to make a chainmail shirt look weathered and old is to rust it up. An easy way to do this is by mixing water, salt, and vinegar in a spray bottle and spraying this mixture onto the chainmail shirt. It takes some time before you see the effect, and the longer you let the mixture work, the more rust you'll get. The more vinegar you use in the mixture, the faster and more intense the effect will be.

Check out this video to see how these methods work in more detail.

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