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To: Salvation
I taught myself how to make the cord ones with the knot tying instructions and little tool that comes with it, made a couple hundred or more and was fussy about getting my knots just so.

Then I made some beautiful ones with fancy beads. I just figured out how to do that myself using special rosary pliers I bought. I probably could have sold some people liked them so well, but I never wanted to do that.

I never learned how to make the kind where you pull wire into a chain, that takes some skill.

The only drawback about all of it are the little pins. One good yank and you'd have to do a repair job. But if the wire were too much heavier, they'd be hard to bend. I've still got a box and drawer full of stuff, could send you at least a tool, the instructions, some beads (several colors) and brown cord (use the green for gardening), don't know if I have any more colors or not maybe black, not sure what all is in there now, to get you started.

Here's where I got started and my supplies:

I found some fancy glass beads and other nice ones at a rock shop here and also on the web. I love what are called czech beads. Also the one place here had the smaller gold roses for the Hail Mary's and the other 3 small ones you need.

I'd have to teach myself all over again so it would be hard to teach someone else. We had a class here, but I already knew how to do it before I went to that, just sat with the ladies, made rosaries and chatted.

17 posted on 03/28/2009 2:12:15 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Salvation

P.S. I never made any wrist ones but several different kinds of chaplets. One of the prettiest ones I ever made was from a picture I saw of a Mexican ladder rosary, they’re strung like a ladder on two small-gauge jewelry chains. I used light blue glass beads and silver chain. That one took a little doing, the little girl liked it so well I was asked to make another one but never got around to it.


18 posted on 03/28/2009 2:16:58 PM PDT by Aliska
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