Today I worked on two paternoster commissions (to take a slight break from my embroidery projects).

The first one was commissioned by my son's friend after he saw a photo of my skull paternoster. He wanted a 5 decade paternoster using bone skulls as gauds and red beads for the aves. He wanted to use his wedding band (his wife died and he wanted it as a momento) as the connector and a sterling silver crucifix.



The red beads are all garnet colored, but photo looks different.

My second commission was from Sir Gemini at Cynagua Coronet after he saw my skull paternoster. I offered to give him mine, but he wanted just a 4 decade loop using all skulls. I fingerlooped black silk thread (all 12 strands) for the cording and then made a black silk tassel for it. The aves are bone skulls and the gauds are date wood skulls.



(The skulls go with his device as there is no lower jaw bone on the skulls.)