Paternosters

I haven't been posting much this year, but I can't let Christmas go by without a Christmas card. Especially since I've discovere...

This article is a love letter to the Prado. More and more museums are putting large parts of their collections online. This is especially he...

part 4 of a series As I mentioned earlier , the first essential of doing research on rosaries and paternosters is to be able to identify pat...

WALL ROSARIES, PART IV In the last article , I showed a lot of pictures of a relatively common type of wall rosary that is made of some sor...

WALL ROSARIES, PART III As I mentioned in Part I , I see a lot of wall rosaries for sale that are made of some sort of ivory-colored (someti...

wall rosaries, part II Probably the most common material for modern wall rosaries is wood. It's quite a practical choice, since it'...

This particular set of pretty pictures is pretty much about what NOT to do when making medieval-style rosaries. Or at least, it's about ...