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DIY How to Make a Rosary and Rosary Making Supplies
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items Interested in making your own Rosary? This list includes kits, individual materials and tutorials on how to make a Rosary yourself.
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DIY Rosary Kits
DIY Rosary Tutorials
DIY Rosary Twine for Knotted Rosaries
DIY Rosary Tools
DIY Rosary Kits
If you're just getting started and don't want to invest in a lot of supplies, start with these simple DIY Rosary kits.
This kit provides with the supplies to make a wire rosary. You are not making links between the beads but instead stringing them onto the wire.
Single Red Rosary Wire Kit
This kit provides the supplies to make a wooden cord Rosary. The Hail Mary beads are made of wood. The Our Father beads are silver plastic. Tying knots before and after beads as shown in the image is helpful to keep beads from sliding too much. Other...
Single Wood Rosary Kit
Another color option for this Rosary kit from Walmart. Click through to see more color choices.
Single Gold Brown Color Rosary Kit
From The Catholic Company. A sweet kit made for kids but certainly can be used by anyone of any age!
Be A Heart Our Lady of Guadalupe DIY Wooden Rosary Kit
Cute kits for kids to make their own rosaries. Comes in 4 different color combinations. Although it uses a cord as its base, this Rosary does not require a lot of knot tying.
Kids Rosary Making Kit | Camo Army Beads
On Etsy. A great kit for beginners especially since a video tutorial is included. Choose from a pack to make 3 or 5 Rosaries.
Make Your Own Rosary Kit with Video Tutorial
DIY Rosary Tutorials
Videos that teach you how to make your own Rosary but also share little lessons about the Rosary, how to pray it and how to grow in your faith while praying it.
Fr. Malachy teaches how to make a rosary like the ones the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal make for themselves.
DIY: Making a Friar Rosary with Fr. Malachy Joseph, CFR
In this video, obviously made during the Covid quarantine, shows Sister Mary Agnes (school unknown) teaching her 5th grade students how to make a knotted rosary. The recommends #36 twine from Twine by Design. (Some of their products are listed in a s...
How to Make a Knotted Rosary with Sister Mary Agnes
Fr. Paschal of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word teaches how to make a Rosary. He also shares about the corded belts they wear and demonstrated the barrel knot found on those belts and in Rosary making.
Learning to Make a Rosary | Inside the Friary
DIY Rosary Twine for Knotted Rosaries
A Knotted Rosary is sometimes called a Cord or Corded Rosary. Instead of beads, it is made up of knots. The cord most often suggested for its durability is a #36 twine which has a diameter of about 1/8 inch or 3mm.
Beautiful blues, the color traditionally associated with Mother Mary.
Blessed Blue | Twine by Design
Colors to match the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Our Lady of Guadalupe | Twine by Design
Colors of the red, white and blue named in honor of Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV | Twine by Design
Colors with fun names of Goldfinch Yellow, Pink with Pizzazz and Pleasantly Purple.
Easter Glory | RosaryCord.com
Colors are Twilight Black, Honey Brown and Pleasantly Purple
Lenten Penance | RosaryCord.com
Colors are Resplendent Red, Pearl White and Opulent Green
Christmas Joy | RosaryCord.com
Each color strand is 18 feet/6 meters long.
Set of 15 Colors #36 Nylon Twine | DivineMercyDesigns on ETsy
Each #36 twine piece is about 10 yards long.
Rope Rosary Making Kit - 3 Pack | GODNOD on Etsy
These are the dimension of #36 twine although they aren't numbered that way.
1/8" (3.2mm) European Rayon Twisted Cord 2305 | VintageTrims on Etsy
DIY Rosary Tools
All the other materials you will need to make your own custom Rosary.
Never lose track of your beads and pieces again. This beautifully-crafted board is intended to help you plan out your beads before you begin making a Rosary. A must have for those who make many Rosaries.
Rosary Bead Board | KabaCreationsCrafts on Etsy
These beads are imprinted with the Mysteries of the Rosary - so helpful! Use them in place of the large “Our Father” beads.
Silver-Tone Mystery Beads | SacredArmorRosaries on Etsy
These beads are imprinted with the Mysteries of the Rosary - so helpful! Use them in place of the large “Our Father” beads.
Gold-Tone Mystery Beads | SacredArmorRosaries on Etsy