Thread the second open ring through the first, you'd get a (slightly wimpy) rosette. When you attach open rings, just make sure to cross them. Rosettes (or "mobius balls") are a great embellishment to use with Byzantine.
Grab an open ring, hook it on (just like step 3), toss on a new 2x2x2x2x2 unit. Now you grab the final rings on the 2x2x2x2x2 unit, and flop 'em. Close the ring, and give it a partner ring. If you use a looser ring, you can actually prepare 2x2x2x2x2 units! (To prepare for those, have opened/closed rings in a 4:6 ratio.) To attach these you need a pair of open rings, and you need to do the bizarre flopping thing before you hook the open ring onto your 2x2x2x2x2 unit. I really don't advise it-the rings were very stiff to work with in close quarters. Note! The photos show 16ga bronze 3/16" rings. My next open (black) ring hooks on to these gold rings, but watch how the rings have to be flipped first and then attached from between the copper rings of the 2x2 unit. Whenever I finish adding a 2x2, the rings at the end are gold. I point out where the black ring attaches to the gold rings by use of the bright blue twist-tie. Black/open rings connect copper to gold. (It's hard to tell the color, but I consistently place new 2x2s so that the gold rings are the ones sticking out at the end.) - Open rings that will be used as connectors are black. But now, all you need to do to continue is to flop the outer most pair of rings on your newest 2x2 unit, use two open rings and attach another unit of 2x2! New Video! Now with color coded rings! And new background music! Alright, here's a break down of what's happening in the video clip v.2: - 2x2 units are constructed 2 copper + 2 gold. This step sound really difficult and convoluted, but once you actually hook your ring onto pair C (between the legs of pair B), things fall into place. Make sure that this newest open ring goes through pair C, and the 2x2 unit as well. Before you close this new ring, put on a 2x2 unit! Now you can close the ring. You will attach your two rings to pair C, but pair B will flank your connecting ring: see photo! The open/connecting rings you attach in this step can be called pair D, but you'll see that they're actually a second iteration of pair A. Take the two outer most rings (pair C) and flop them so that they are perpendicular to the next pair of rings (pair B) down. If you want an idea of what's out there, take a look at the chainmail gallery on my website.
If you are interested in additional weaves, let me know (though PMs, emails or comments) on what you want me to demonstrate.
Be careful not to go too thick, though-the weave will get too tight to construct. See the photo? The IDs are all the same, but the thicker wire looks better. anemic looking weave, and a thick wire with small ID will be too tight to work with. A small wire size with large ID will result in a rather. You can go with larger or smaller rings, though the wire-to-ID ratio needs to be within a certain range to produce aesthetically pleasing results. Ring size: I frequently use 18ga aluminum wire with 3/16" interior diameter as a good medium ring size. For many ring sizes, you can use chain, flat, bent or needle nosed pliers, but for some sizes you'll need specific ones. I work with tooth-less pliers, as teeth will mark my rings. If you're working with small and soft rings, you can use a ring-tool and a single pair of pliers. You will need rings and two pairs of pliers.
I also have an instructable on making jewelry-size rings, and armor-size rings will be addressed in another instructable. Euro 4-in-1 is excellent for making sheets of chainmail, and is a great beginner weave. You may wish to start with Paul the Mole's European 4-in-1 weave instructable to get you familiar with chain working. Note! This instructable assumes that you have basic chain working skills. If you do know box weave, however, think of the Byzantine as alternating box weave. It is a cousin of the box weave, which I personally dislike, and therefore have not presented as an instructable. It's a good beginner's weave for chains (as opposed to sheets) of chainmail. Byzantine weave isn't actually Byzantine in origin, but it is a beautiful weave and is fairly simple.
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