Scales

In order to make the charms and amulets personal and private, I’d like to design a method in which they can be concealed or revealed as the wearer wishes. Either locket style or some type of veil. Firstly I have decided to look at scales.

Scale-mail seems to be the best find on a how-to, as I don’t want to use a backing to stitch the scales to..

This site has some useful tips, though I will be doing it in miniature.

I will start with copper as a practice material as silver is so expensive, however, my plan is to go on to silver afterwards as I am going to enamel some of the scales with transparent enamel, to try and give the shimmering effect