Although you can purchase chainmail from a dive or sporting good store, why not put all those empty soda cans to good use and create your own with the tabs? The supply you will need most is time as it will take approximately 1,000 or more...

aluminum tab(s) ---> purse - via https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=334664636613729=a.318196928260500.78766.102106566536205=1

Here's one {of many} things that've been happening since I last updated you guys on my battle Tauriel costume... My pop-tab shoulder chainmail pauldrons are 100% finished (with the help of some donations from friends)! :D As you can see, they're a general diamond shape, with some slight shaping at the upper top for the shoulder so they'll lay better. Each piece is made of (to my best approximation) ~175 tabs. Now, you might be wondering why I didn't just make the chain mail out of metal…

A pop can tab corset - I wonder if a similar design could be used to make "chain mail" for armor costumes?

Soda Can Pop Top Chainmail. This

Gothorella on Instagram: "Making chain mail from soda tabs. 🥤⛓️A quick tutorial! I made a full art piece using this piece of chain mail (which contains 250 soda tabs, shout out to my neighbors for helping me collect them) however I decided to pull this tutorial out and make it it's own more specific video so we don't have to dwell on it in the next video that'll go more in depth into the actual art piece and it's construction ! #art #artist #chainmail #howto #tutorial #sodatab…

Genuine Chainmaille From Pop Tabs: Constructing a genuine European 4 in 1 chainmaille weave using only pop tabs. Turns out this is very easy and makes a really great looking piece of maille, and as an added bonus you don't have to worry about having a quarter mile of wire on hand to …