Use the rosaries you make. When you pray the rosary,
use a rosary that you have made recently.
This will help you understand the characteristics of
your rosaries and what the
experience of the people who receive them will be like.
If your rosaries twist, put in a reverse twist. If you
find that the loop of decades in your rosaries twists around itself
after
you use one a few times, put in a reverse twist
before tying
the knot that joins the
two ends of the rosary cord.
You can best determine how much reverse twist you should use by
trying different amounts.
The amount of reverse twist needed could vary somewhat
due to variations in the in different
batches of cord.
Does it matter which direction the knots are wound?
Yes, if you are using cord made from twisted fibers, the direction
you wind the knots makes a difference in how easy or hard it is to
tie a knot. See this
link for more information.
Understand how to use your rosary
making time efficiently by doing
tasks that use the same tools and materials at the same time.
This is the principle behind the cord stick and the thread block.
When preparing thirty rosary cords, instead of reaching
for the scissors thirty times, reaching for the cord thirty
times, measuring the cord thirty times, cutting a cord
thirty times, and placing the scissors back down thirty times
you can wind
the cord around the cord stick thirty times and then reach for the
scissors once, cut once, and place the scissors back down once.
Another example of this is trimming the ends of the rosary cord from
the completed rosary. It is more efficient to do this when you have
thirty or forty rosaries than doing it when you complete each rosary.
There are some "exceptions which prove the rule" for this
principle. That is, there
are tasks when it is not more efficient to do them all at once because
there are no steps that can be eliminated by doing them in a batch. For
example, when tying the thread loops on the rosary cord you have to
reach for a thread, reach for a cord and tie the thread to the cord.
There is nothing different if you do this in a large batch or if you
do it one at time before you start each rosary. Also, inserting
the threading rods into the beads would actually be less efficient
if you had
six threading rods and inserted them into each row in the bead jig
before starting the rosary. If you did that, you would have to
reach for a rod and insert it six times, then after you
transfer the beads to the cord you would have to place a rod
down on the table six times. By using only two rods and inserting
one into the next row of beads after you have transfered the previous
row of beads to the cord,
you eliminate
two steps: reaching for a rod and placing the rod down on the table.
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