Hello everyone and greetings! My name is Mike Gray, i'm 17 years old, and in the SCA I have two personas. One is a 14th century Russian named Misha Grigor'ev...
Welcome! ... Actually, I know there are people who sell paternosters at Pennsic, and they don't seem to have any trouble. If you market them as "here's a cool...
I have posted three photos of rosaries I made for use in re- enactment and historical interpretation. The first is made of reproduction trade beads and copper,...
... Ooooo, very nice! They show the fact that they have really been used and worn, too, and not put in a glass case somewhere <g>. I'm afraid mine mostly have...
Pardon me while I crow a bit! I wanted to report that the Paternosters class I taught last weekend in Southern California was a great success (this was at...
In a message dated 3/14/03 10:42:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, claning@... writes: << I've invited the class members to join this list, so hopefully we'll ...
You have every right to crow!!!! The class was GGGGRRRREAT!!!!! And now you get all the questions.... I was reading that in the 1400's the church was as usual...
I must say I very much enjoyed the class as well and appreciate the invitation to join this list. Leonora -- ********* Stacie J. Tibbetts Operations Manager ...
Greetings all!! I wanted to say how much I enjoyed taking this class! I have never been in one like it, and Lady Elpeth who I took the class with, like me...
I was the student in your class who had trouble in the end with my silk thread tangling. I wanted to let you know that your suggestion of waxing the silk...
My husband and I have been puzzling over the sizes of beads. He has images stuck in his head of huge long waist to knee strings of beads... but your mention...
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 18:48:14 GMT -0800 (which was 8:48 PM where I live), thus spake danandjay on the subject of "[Paternosters] Re: sizes of...
... He's been looking at 16th-century German stuff, hasn't he? <g> I've collected seven or eight German portraits and a couple of engravings from various times...
I found something of interest to the group on the great website, Bildindex, which is a collection of mostly photographic images, Bildindex, which is a...
Wow, thanks Katherine! www.bildindex.de is a wonderful resource, WHEN you can get it to work. I find that it's often very, very slow -- I suppose due to...
Fellow human beings and lovers of humanity, I am Misha Grigor'ev in the SCA and also known mundanly as Mike Gray. With the pre-bombing of Iraq, I am sad to...
I was in the lovely class taught in Wintermist (Caid) this past Collegium and was hoping to gain permission to make copies of the class handout for several...
... Thanks for the compliment! I'm sorry, but I have to say no -- basically because while the text is mine, most of the illustrations are not. However you are...
I thought that might be the answer, but a unasked the answer could only be no.... I hadn't thought about the faq file... though I did direct them to the group....
Since I've had some success with making period-style rosaries recently (to use up some of those 1,000 olivewood beads I had to buy)..... I've been putting...
The imitation "German coral" rosary I mentioned is done and up on eBay -- it's smaller than mine and made of less expensive materials (dyed marble and glass,...
... Oh, sorry. If you mean the red one, the red marble beads are 12mm and I think the glass ones are 16mm, though I have a vague memory that I got them from a...
Greetings, good gentles! My name's Sorche Kyrkeby, and I'm really impressed with the amount of documentation and assistance on this list. I do have a question,...
Greetings the list! I am THL Catherine de Gray (Cat) out of Cynagua (Sacramento, to fine tune) in the West Kingdom, enacting a 16th century Englishwoman living...
Glad to meet you! I just made my first one, out of silk embroidery thread, glass pearls and amber-looking glass beads as gauds. I haven't attached a pendant...
It's been awfully quiet around here! What's everyone up to? What projects are you working on (related to rosaries or not)? I had a bit of free time a couple of...
Hi Chris.... ... It's been awfully quiet around here! it is! I've been looking at some nice textiles recently, (but no beads...), which you can read all about...
... competition, and am currently working on 1520's Florentine garb to go with said rosaries (whatever excuse it takes, right? <g>) To get an idea of the garb...
