Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/1999/04/22/forget_spam_mail_how_about/

Forget spam mail, how about chain mail?

Knitzilla one, purlzilla another

By Childe Roland

Posted in On-Prem, 22nd April 1999 19:49 GMT

Leave work early enough from Szechuan Publishing and you find yourself in a welter of suits all leaving the City of London looking stressed and wanting to return to their respective bastions big time. Except, tonight, we couldn't help notice a chap travelling on the Metro Line with two pairs of pliers and a heap of iron bits. He was making chain mail. The young lad explained to two elderly people who enquired by showing a piece he'd made earlier. He makes a reasonable living by putting together chain mail for those Brits who have to go around wearing the authentic thing in pageants.... ®