Mojica, Rebeca

Rebeca Mojica is an author, instructor and award-winning chainmaille artist. Rebeca first began making maille in 2002 when she wanted to purchase a chainmaille belt, but couldn’t find any designs that she really liked. So she literally took matters into her own hands by buying some jump rings and making a belt on her own, thus awakening her passion. Today she knows more than 100 weaves, including a dozen of her own creation, and has a diverse portfolio of both upscale and accessible jewelry.

As the pre-eminent chainmaille instructor in the Midwest, Rebeca has spent more than 1,000 hours teaching students from around the world. In addition to conducting workshops at local bead shops and art centers, she has taught at the Bead&Button Show and has been a guest instructor for the Fashion Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rebeca is a member of the Chicago Craft Mafia and Chicago Metal Arts Guild. Projects she’s designed have appeared in Chain Mail Jewelry and 30 Minute Necklaces, both instructional books by Lark Publishing; Wirework 2010 magazine; Art Jewelry Magazine and Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine. Her micromaille necklace Poseidon’s Embrace was a 3rd place winner in the Finished Jewelry category of the international Bead Dreams 2009 competition—marking the first time a chainmaille design was juried into the finals. Her work has appeared on CLTV and in The Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.

As a graduate from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Rebeca is glad to have put her journalism skills to good use while writing Chained.

When she is not weaving maille, Rebeca enjoys cooking, learning languages, and contemplating quantum physics and fractal cosmology

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