Modelling a Milanese watch strap

[burnin]

look around for chain mail modeling
it’s a different pattern but same technique
or do it with the tissue addon

Tissue by Alessandro Zomparelli

essellate Tessellate tool allows you to copy a selected object (Component) on the faces of the active object (Generator), adapting its bounding box to the shape of quad-faces. Once the Tessellate button was pressed, then more options will appear in the Operator parameters.Update allows you to update the active the Tessellated mesh according to Component and Generator changes. You can also change the parameters of tessellation. [https://camo.githubusercontent.com/15dbb4366fc1ef23b3badfb2da8f4d8…