Just a few reminders from your list moderator :) [Paternosters] is an e-mail list for people interested in historical rosaries, paternosters, and other prayer...
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Jan 1, 2005 11:27 pm
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Greetings all. Wanted to crow a little over lovely holiday prezzie recieved from friends-- a modern rosary made of myrtlewood beads. Myrtlewood grows only on...
Oops, sorry about that allruntogether post. I'll fix it and put in some line endings before it runs again.... <red face to match my coral beads> ... ...[etc.] ...
Greetings and best wishes for a happy and safe New Year! ... Unfortunately, no, but since I'm on the Medieval Spain list and we have people going over to Spain...
Greetings from a lurker... I was just at the Cleveland Museum of Art today, and they had a lovely paternoster there (and the Dukes and Angels exhibit is ...
... Charlotte, If you want to use flat silk (ie not spun) you could try using embroidery thread. Eterna Stranded silk (http://www.eternasilk.com/stranded.htm)...
... embroidery ... (http://www.eternasilk.com/stranded.htm) is ... Thanks for the tip. I'm always looking for new sources of silk, since I moved away from my...
Also, in case anyone is interested, The Rosary Workshop now carries one type of credo cross. http://www.rosaryworkshop.com/PC_07-CROSSES-European.html Alice ...
... several ... Greetings from another lurker, I've had good luck with finger loop braiding good old Gutermann silk sewing thread for my paternosters. It comes...
Bill at Bill's Beads http://www.billsbeads.com could cast a credo cross for you out of any cross you sent him. I sent him a medal and asked him to make a...
Thanks Tammy! I hadn't thought of that! And what a coincidence I was just today e-mailing him about making some bronze toggle clasps for me. I will look into...
... I actually don't think I've ever seen anyone write about it (though I haven't done a specific search). About all I know is that we see examples of rosaries...
Thanks Chris, I have seen several places (on the web) where it is stated that the credo cross was prescribed by the Council of Trent in the mid 1500's, yet I...
... I think it's the #1 best available book in English on the subject. (BTW I've seen it at discount book places offered for half price, and I hope that...
As I am planning on creating a series of medieval paternosters in a variety of styles for an A&S entry (SCA), I did some serious searching last night through...
Oh yeah! Now that it is post holidays, I just thought I would update this little GEM: For those who are interested - I have recently found a good resource for...
... If anyone else wants to get an idea of what it looks like, I found a small color picture online from a review of the exhibition. Quite beautiful. I would...
Greetings all. Robin and Russ Handweavers (http://www.robinandruss.com/) where I get a lot of my silk threads will be closing their store at the end of the...
... There are a number of like paintings from the same area and period which show such paternosters hanging in the background. The one I like is in the Norton...
Daniel Phelps
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Jan 8, 2005 4:59 pm
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... http://fingerloop.org/ has lots of good patterns and beginning instructions I hear that http://www.bumply.com/Medieval/braiding01.html has the best on-line...
Sometimes I improvise and mix the Tiger Tail with some silk cord...to kind of disguise the fact I used Tiger Tail. It becomes a bit more important when you...
Does anyone know about what sizes of beads were most common in period? Many images (especially earlier period ones) show very large beads, I would estimate...
Do other people find that "tiger tail" and other modern threads cause the string of beads to hang or "drape" differently? Certainly the modern rosaries being...
Hi. Found this 2003 article online which is a great general overview of muslim rosaries/traditions/makers: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/627/fe2.htm ...
Greetings! ... It varies *widely* - do you have a particular time period in mind, and stone / metal / glass / other? ... Faceted beads, as we know them today,...
