I saw Cheez's comment about chainmail, and I did some googling.

I'll just leave this here
Yup, a truly amazing piece by an amazing chainmailler, check out his gallery on his MAIL profile:
David AustinIf I remember right, he's Canadian too...I think they're hording all the artistic water.

This is also part of his gallery which I find the most mind boggling:

His chainmaille has a freaking ZIPPER on it!!!
And check out the back...

The patterning and preparation it had to of taken to do this makes my brain hurt.
