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A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads
Eleanor Wiley and Maggie Oman Shannon have taken an ancient practice and made it new. A String and a Prayer recounts the history and symbolism of prayer beads, teaches basic techniques for stringing beads and a host of other objects into prayer beads, and offers a variety of prayers and rituals to use those beads on a daily basis. Beads have appeared throughout history. Pr...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
September 1st 2002
by Red Wheel/Weiser
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For anyone who has ever wanted to make meditation beads, this is a great "get started" book. It goes through the meditation beads from various cultures, talks about significance of numbers, talks about materials to use (including wood, stone, glass, etc.) and what they signify, discusses symbols and amulets, and then gives instructions on how to make a few projects.
It also has stories of people who have made meditation beads for various purposes along with pictures of the ...more
It also has stories of people who have made meditation beads for various purposes along with pictures of the ...more
As children, many of us may remember sitting crossed legged on the floor, stringing wooden beads on thin twine at some point during our first years of grade school. Still later, we may have tried our hands a beading on a small bead loom usually found at a local crafts store. A String & A Prayer shows us through the origins, meditative and spiritual aspects of bead work that creating, stringing and using our own prayer beads need not be a tedious, frustrating time consuming exercise in patience.
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beaders, people interested in prayer beads
Shelves:
non-fiction,
religion-spiritual
If you're new to prayer beads, and would like a short (I breezed through it in a couple of hours), inexpensive primer that adequately covers the history of prayer beads in different cultures, the symbolism of their construction, establishing a prayer bead practice, and creating prayer beads for your own personal intentions, this is the book for you. In addition to a broad spectrum of basic information, it includes a few exercises for you to practice crafting your own, a recipe for making your ow...more
It'd be interesting to have something like this but I've no interest in making my own.
Read this book thinking I might have time to add prayer beads to my spiritual practice. Nice idea but I think it'll have to wait until my kids are out of the house!
Very interesting and helpful. Enjoyed reading about different prayer beads and how to make some for myself.
fantastic, detailed history of prayer beads. a few good patterns/instructions. kind of "fluffy" in the middle with color/number/material symbolism, because i already know that stuff. i think if i hadn't known it already i would have found it useful.
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