Byzantine chain

When King chain, a necklace chain is called, the members of which are intertwined in a special way. She looks very compact.

The classic Byzantine chain is made of round wire. In the machine production, however, is today often worked with a hollow wire to save material and reduce the weight of the chain. The same kind of eyes round or oval shape are processed in pairs at a King chain. First, two of the eyelets are placed horizontally to each other. Two more eyelets Through this guided vertically again first hooked in parallel. By the second pair, a third pair of lugs is again pulled horizontally parallel. This third pair but pulled apart then: Each of the two loops is rotated by 180 degrees, and thereby folded back so that they engage around, then the second pair of lugs to the rear. Finally, the perpendicular second pair is spread and a fourth pair of lugs is guided vertically between the spread second pair through the now accessible, and superimposed on this page third pair. This makes it fixes the second pair in its spread and the third in its folded-back position. This fourth pair remains parallel to each other as the first, except that, in contrast to this stands vertically.

At this point, the pattern from the beginning. However, it will be displaced by the vertical position of the fourth pair of chains due to a quarter turn. In this way, the chain will continue, so that a web of two of parallel, horizontally and vertically arranged pairs of rings is formed which are connected by two further pairs in each case diagonally to one another enclosing. Each eyelet remains freely movable.

Today, the chain is often, for example, processed by rolling, so that the lugs are deformed and the cross-section of the chain would appear almost square. Also a variety of fancy shapes are made ​​by processing different sized or differently shaped chain links and other different kinds of embellishments and color combinations.