We love seeing what you vote for each month for the Maillers’ Choice kits. Sometimes it’s like you read our minds, and sometimes you vote for something we didn’t really consider and it makes us say, “Of course! It looks great that way!” So, what will you come up with for August’s Maillers’ Choice? Take… Read more »
Below you can vote for the kit we will release in January. Love Maillers’ Choice? Join the club! Subscribe and you’ll automatically receive every Maillers’ Choice kit in your mailbox each month. Kick off your 2014 mailling with “Inner Fire,” a design by B3’s own Omni Mee. This scaled dragontail (a helm variation) is wonderfully versatile, appealing to… Read more »
It has taken a lot of time and construction dust, but the Blue Buddha Boutique retail store in Chicago is up and running. We love teaching in our spiffy new classrooms and chatting with passers by – most often introducing them to chainmaille for the first time! While our true love is chainmaille, we didn’t… Read more »
Customers frequently ask us how to make chainmaille clothing. While maille clothing may not be our main focus here at Blue Buddha, many of our project designers do create chainmaille clothing pieces as part of their own lines and artistic visions. To address this question, we turned to two of them: Omni Mee and Kat… Read more »
Our customer service gal, Aimee recently came to us with a great suggestion for the next post in our “Ask an Artist” series. She mentioned that she often has conversations with customers who want to create clothing pieces out of maille but really aren’t sure where to begin. Taking one look at some of the… Read more »
