I want to be able to describe the things I sell in my Etsy shop. In googling for "types of chains," I've yet to come across a comprehensive site. Part of the problem is that I'm interested in using that brass chain with the ring that pulls open the antique lock on the top of the door in that old store.
Typical scenario: I walk into an antique store and address the salesperson.
Me: Do you have any brass chain?
Proprietor: There are some gold watch chains over in this case.
Me: What about that brass chain that's holding the lid of the case to the box? It has such a great patina...
Thus, the names of hardware-store chain types are necessary, too.
So, here's the start of my Compendium of Chains:
single jack and double jack
single jack and double jack
double loop
plumber's
box or venitian
curb
singapore
snake
mesh
byzantine
wheat
cable
herringbone
mariner
omega
rope
serpentine
foxtail
trombone
fetterlink
Then there are catches, but maybe for another time...
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