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The Original Source of Heirloom
Eastern Christian Prayer Beads made from the finest gemstones and precious metals |
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Check out our Specials for June. I have put several items on sale for 15%-50% off (mostly in the 25%-33% range).
Chaplets & Chotkis Now Present on SecondLife!
You may have already heard of - or even experienced - SecondLife. It's an online virtual community of people around the world, meeting and living a "second life" through an avatar in a computer environment... Like a video game, but so much more!
Many companies and organizations have established an online presence in SecondLife. (Some companies even hire individuals whose job description is to spend their day logged into SecondLife to introduce people to their Real Life company's products and services.) Chaplets & Chotkis now has a presence in SecondLife as well. My avatar, Tamelyne Sweetwater, has set up a booth at an artisan mall in SecondLife. Soon this booth will have free copies of my brochures regarding prayer beads, how to pray a chotki, etc. I am also making virtual prayer beads for avatars to "use" - but so far I only have a wrist chotki available. (Please be patient - with a day job, a family, and Chaplets & Chotkis orders to fill, I don't have much time to work on my SecondLife project.)
So if you'd like to visit SecondLife and see what it's all about, click here! You are automatically started with the free basic membership, and you will be charged nothing unless/until you choose to upgrade. Most people never upgrade - in fact, my avatar Tamelyne Sweetwater has only the free membership. With only a free membership, you can still experience the community that is taking the world by storm!
Types of Prayer Beads Available on this Site
A Chotki, or Komvoschinion, is a set of prayer beads much like a rosary, used by Orthodox and Eastern Catholics. Instead of "Hail Mary" and "Our Father", the Jesus Prayer is prayed. Chotkis come in a variety of sizes: 33, 50, 100, 101, 103, 150, and 300 beads. The Greek Komvoschinion is usually made of knotted wool or "rattail", while the Byzantine Ruthenians of the Carpatho-Rusyn Mountains use strung wooden beads. The chotki ends in either a cross or a tassel, said to be used to wipe away one's tears. All of our Chotkis and Komvoschinia are beaded, not knotted, and usually end in a cross. They are available in the following configurations:
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![]() 33-Bead Chotki |
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We also carry wrist chotki. They come in wood bead styles on a stretchy material than can fit over the hand, and in gemstone styles strung on memory wire that can be opened to fit over the wrist. All our chotki are strung on the highest quality flexwire, except our wrist chotki. "Standard" chotki are available in the same selection of wooden and black glass beads as all our other "standard" prayer beads, and one-of-a-kind artisan chotki are made of gemstones. Or, if you like, you can request a custom order of whatever material fits your fancy. Please see our History of Prayer Beads page for information on how to pray the Chotki. |
![]() Baltic Amber Wrist Chotki |



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Like our rosaries, our artisan chaplets are one-of-a-kind pieces made with gemstone beads. Because chaplets generally have fewer beads than rosaries, I have been able to use various construction techniques, including wirewrapping and chaining. Of course, you are welcome to request a custom order of any configuration of chaplet, in any material. We do require, however, that any chaplet you are requesting is one that has been approved by the Catholic Church for use by the faithful. If you are not sure, contact us about it and we will be happy to check into it for you. | ![]() also known as the Little Flower Rosary |

![]() 50-Bead Paternoster | ||
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"In many monastic rules, it was enjoined that the lay brothers, who knew no Latin, instead
of the Divine office should say the Lord's Prayer a certain number of times (often
amounting to more than a hundred) per diem. To count these repetitions they made use of
pebbles or beads strung upon a cord, and this apparatus was commonly known as a "pater-noster",
a name which it retained even when such a string of beads was used to count, not Our Fathers,
but Hail Marys in reciting Our Lady's Psalter, or in other words in saying the rosary."
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In other words, the Pater Noster is the 'original' Christian prayer rope!
As the Paternoster evolved, it began to look more and more like modern rosaries and chaplets, with varying numbers of beads, often divided into decades or sets of five or seven smaller beads with larger beads between. The term "paternoster" was still used for all these prayer beads until the word "rosary" came into use. Our Paternoster returns to the straight rope of beads, NOT brought into a loop like a rosary or chotki. It has a cross at one end and a tassel at the other. We give you the choice of 50, 100 or 150 beads on our standard wood Pater Nosters. All our Paternosters are strung on the highest quality 49-strand flexwire. We also can make a custom Pater Noster with any number of beads, in any material. | ||

P.O. Box 10991
Bakersfield, CA 93389
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