Chain mail

[Caradoc]

I'd be real curious to see what happens to the copper mail over time. I would assume it patinas and eventually takes on the green tints.

Somewhat. One of the paradoxes of mail is that the more you wear it, the less it patinas because the links rub against each other and literally polish each other.

The medieval method of cleaning mail was to put it in a burlap or canvas bag with some clean straw and hand it to the squires to play "medicine ball" with it. The pounding as it was thrown from hand to hand cleaned the links off as they rubbed together.

The other method, which I've used to great results, is to put the mail into a barrel with some clean straw and a handful or two of sand, and roll it down a nice slope.

Copper's fun to play with, but any large expanse of it will pull the links open under their own weight unless you're using obscenely large gauges of wire. Mild steel will do the same thing if there's enough mail in one piece.