this is a fantastic tutorial for fresh roses! thank you ♥ for dried and ancient roses: use a mortar and pestle to grind them down into as small pieces as possible. take a pot and mix your petal pieces into water... just enough of it to submerge your ground petals. bring to a boil and let simmer till the water is almost gone. repeat this process five times and stir like a madman. take the resulting paste and grind it again. if you don't have a mortar with grooves (to my shagrin mine is smooth) be sure to use a lot of pounding and angular grinding motions. keep grinding until your rose clay is very smooth. if need be add more water if its getting too dry. but you do want to do your post water grinding as a way to release excess water and get rid of any chunks. its a lot of work but some roses have sentimental value or came from a place that is sacred thus is worth doing. i have some roses that have seen a lot of history... arabic gum and rose oil can be used to help your dried roses cement together a bit more. you can also add lavendar and even do *this* process with other herbs. woad produces a beautiful navy blue but does stain if it gets wet so you may want to coat it with some sort of oil, wax, acrylic, or other sealers(preferably natural). you may have to tweak cook times and recipes based on the herbs you use. take what i'm saying here with salt as i know i'm missing information. my grandmother died before she could teach me the whole process. ill report back if i get the money to run experiments. P.S.: if anyone remembers how to do this with other herbs (or properly for that matter) feel free to comment or correct. id really love to learn my grandmothers craft ♥
Thanks for sharing this knowledge from your grandmother. I have been asked about this, so I think people will appreciate the information. Since I have abundant fresh petals, I have not experimented with the dried petals, but I know that not everyone is in my situation. May your grandmother's spirit guide you to the knowledge you are seeking.
Chagrin. Not shagrin. Also a smooth ceramic mortar will break particulate down finer than any other style, which is why they're used in laboratories. They are, however, a monster to start the breaking down process with. I have woad in my herb garden - I might try what you suggested. Tbh I was planning on trying to make woad balls, given they seem to be a lost art (or rather everyone has made them, no one has ever gotten back on using them). So what I have left over will go into beads. :D
Thank you for this so much! I am making my first batch today with the roses my partner gave me for valentines day. I am so very excited to see how they turn out with so much love I am putting into them. Much love, sister! 🙏🏼🪷🤲🏼✨💞
Love your tutorial, engagement of the Devas, and beautiful version of the process! Rose beads are so magical - I often use dried flowers - especially off season (and i had a Combo of dried and fresh in my early batches) I powder the petals (coffee mill) and simmer in a potpourri crock pot. My grandma Mary made them a century ago - and they retained their fragrance beautifully! I make an herbal tea using Rose geranium leaves and lavendar to reconstitute my petals ❤🌹 and am also a harper 🎶
Thanks you for watching and for your kind comments. Blessings on your grandma Mary's spirit, which lives on in you. She would be so proud. What a treasure to have her beads. I am a harper, too, and the beautiful music on the video is from Lisa Lynne, my friend and neighbor with so many talents including video skills. Wishing you a harpy, rosy, wonderful life!
Ah ..... a lot. I would estimate about two gallons of petals. I just picked mine yesterday. The old roses are blooming now. Use the most fragrant you can find. Sing/chant while you pick.
Thank you for this lovely video. I have a beautiful rosa damascena but she only produces a few blossoms each day. Do you have a suggestion about how to work with those? I could grind them each day, and then mix the new in with the older, though that might cause the entire mixture to be more difficult to work with.
Try saving up the petals for 3 days. Grind what you have. Save for three more days and repeat. I think it would work to do this for 2 weeks. When you grind every day, or every other day, it will all mix together and work just as well. Meanwhile, walk around your neighborhood to see if any neighbors have an old rose growing. Perhaps they would be willing to share. Or . . . do you have a public rose garden nearby? Sometimes you can get permission to use some slightly wilted blooms. Good luck with your beads from your beautiful rosa damascena.
i have some dried orchids so i think with a little more i can try this. and you can make beads from other herbs. when i have the time and funds ill do experiments on the exact process.
Hello Beatrice, my roses are a brown mush at the moment. It has been almost a month since I processed them. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong? Should I leave the pot open to air? I have been covering the pot? Thanks! I look forward to your response!
I truly apologize for not getting back to you. I had a wrist surgery and was away from the computer for quite a while. The first thing that comes to my mind is whether you kept your rose mash in a cast iron pot as shown. Mine turn black within days in the pot. If you did have it In cast iron I wonder if it had a coating of some sort? I do keep the lid on my pot. I wonder if you were able to get some beads after all? Let me know.
Hi, Ericka. The cast iron pot is important to the process. I haven't tried it with anything else. You should be able to find one inexpensively at a second hand store. A cast iron skillet would work also, and may be easier to find.
Bambi, please forgive the delay in my reply. Technology is not my strength. OK, I wear my beads daily. The beads are durable and will not color your skin. In my spiritual tradition, it is said that the beads will break eventually and it is good luck. Just re string them.
Its a song I recorded called "Crimson Morn" on my CD called Fairie Tales. My website has it and its also on Bandcamp as a single song. My website is www.LisaLynne.com and bandcamp.com search Lisa Lynne. I'm glad you like it!
Hello!! I just had a question. I have a few roses i dried out a while ago, could i just add qater to them and still use them or do i need to start from scratch?
Thank you for your question. My method uses fresh roses. But there is a different method for the dried roses. Someone left instructions here among the comments with the method for dried roses. Try it and let me know how it works.
I use dried petals (am making a batch today!) Just separate the petals from stems and stamens, then if you have a coffee mill, grind them fine in that (I use a bit of cinnamon, 5 spice powder ...) and mix with water. I use a tea with rose geranium leaves and lavendar, and do simmer in a potpourri Crockpot (an hour daily for several days) - or you could try several rounds of processing as Beatrice does, with some of the Tea water!
I use the fresh method because I have so many roses. I would think that the method described below by scythscythe884 would work. Try it and let us know how it goes.
I'm sorry to hear about your eyesight. I wonder if anyone could help you so you could have the experience. Once the clay is made, you could go by feel. The beads don't have to be perfect.
That is sweet of you to ask, Donna. It is a sacred chant of the "ceili de", A beautiful Celtic spiritual tradition from Scotland. Translation from Gaelic: "Oh, thou Mother God, your earthly light, wisdom and magic."
Beatrice Rose so beautiful thank you. I have made my first batch of beads and I love them. Thank you again. I just want to learn that beautiful chant now.
@@donnashay2078 The chant comes from an oral tradition and is not transcribed. However, on the ceili de website (I google ceilie de Scotland and it comes right up), there are CD's made for the purpose of learning the chants. There are 4 and this chant, "a mhathair dhe", is on #2. Be sure to get the little booklet that goes with the CD, for translations and pronunciation. I am so happy that you were successful with your beads.
this is a fantastic tutorial for fresh roses! thank you ♥
for dried and ancient roses: use a mortar and pestle to grind them down into as small pieces as possible. take a pot and mix your petal pieces into water... just enough of it to submerge your ground petals. bring to a boil and let simmer till the water is almost gone. repeat this process five times and stir like a madman. take the resulting paste and grind it again. if you don't have a mortar with grooves (to my shagrin mine is smooth) be sure to use a lot of pounding and angular grinding motions. keep grinding until your rose clay is very smooth. if need be add more water if its getting too dry. but you do want to do your post water grinding as a way to release excess water and get rid of any chunks.
its a lot of work but some roses have sentimental value or came from a place that is sacred thus is worth doing. i have some roses that have seen a lot of history... arabic gum and rose oil can be used to help your dried roses cement together a bit more. you can also add lavendar and even do *this* process with other herbs. woad produces a beautiful navy blue but does stain if it gets wet so you may want to coat it with some sort of oil, wax, acrylic, or other sealers(preferably natural). you may have to tweak cook times and recipes based on the herbs you use. take what i'm saying here with salt as i know i'm missing information. my grandmother died before she could teach me the whole process. ill report back if i get the money to run experiments.
P.S.: if anyone remembers how to do this with other herbs (or properly for that matter) feel free to comment or correct. id really love to learn my grandmothers craft ♥
Thanks for sharing this knowledge from your grandmother. I have been asked about this, so I think people will appreciate the information. Since I have abundant fresh petals, I have not experimented with the dried petals, but I know that not everyone is in my situation. May your grandmother's spirit guide you to the knowledge you are seeking.
Chagrin. Not shagrin. Also a smooth ceramic mortar will break particulate down finer than any other style, which is why they're used in laboratories. They are, however, a monster to start the breaking down process with. I have woad in my herb garden - I might try what you suggested. Tbh I was planning on trying to make woad balls, given they seem to be a lost art (or rather everyone has made them, no one has ever gotten back on using them). So what I have left over will go into beads. :D
Thank you for this so much! I am making my first batch today with the roses my partner gave me for valentines day. I am so very excited to see how they turn out with so much love I am putting into them. Much love, sister! 🙏🏼🪷🤲🏼✨💞
So glad you are giving it a try. Love is the "secret ingredient". May your beads be a blessing to you.
I love the way that you share your knowledge of how to do beads from roses. Thank you!❤
You are so welcome. I hope you get the opportunity to make some beads, perhaps next May.
Thank you. I enjoyed your kitty in the video.
Amei !!!! A Senhora poderia fazer uns vídeos ensinando a técnica e o processo passo a passo 🙏
Love your tutorial, engagement of the Devas, and beautiful version of the process!
Rose beads are so magical - I often use dried flowers - especially off season (and i had a Combo of dried and fresh in my early batches)
I powder the petals (coffee mill) and simmer in a potpourri crock pot. My grandma Mary made them a century ago - and they retained their fragrance beautifully!
I make an herbal tea using Rose geranium leaves and lavendar to reconstitute my petals ❤🌹 and am also a harper 🎶
Thanks you for watching and for your kind comments. Blessings on your grandma Mary's spirit, which lives on in you. She would be so proud. What a treasure to have her beads. I am a harper, too, and the beautiful music on the video is from Lisa Lynne, my friend and neighbor with so many talents including video skills. Wishing you a harpy, rosy, wonderful life!
Just what I was looking for! Thank You!
I am happy this was helpful. Let me know how your beads turned out.
Thank you! Hope you do more videos so relaxing! Blessing and thanks again
Thank you and blessings of the rose to you.
Blessed Be Sister, thank you for such a wonderful way to make these.
You are welcome. It's almost time for the roses to bloom here in Oregon.
So beautiful, thank you.
You are welcome. Good luck with your beads.
This was such a calming video⚘️✨️
Thank you 🌿💗🌿
Thank you🌹
I very much enjoyed your video and am hoping you will make more in the future. I also hope your wrist has mended well
That is sweet of you to say. And my wrist healed really well. Thank you for asking.
greetings, and thanks for this instruction! how many roses does it take to make enough clay for an entire rosary?
Ah ..... a lot. I would estimate about two gallons of petals. I just picked mine yesterday. The old roses are blooming now. Use the most fragrant you can find. Sing/chant while you pick.
Thank you for this lovely video. I have a beautiful rosa damascena but she only produces a few blossoms each day. Do you have a suggestion about how to work with those? I could grind them each day, and then mix the new in with the older, though that might cause the entire mixture to be more difficult to work with.
Try saving up the petals for 3 days. Grind what you have. Save for three more days and repeat. I think it would work to do this for 2 weeks. When you grind every day, or every other day, it will all mix together and work just as well. Meanwhile, walk around your neighborhood to see if any neighbors have an old rose growing. Perhaps they would be willing to share. Or . . . do you have a public rose garden nearby? Sometimes you can get permission to use some slightly wilted blooms. Good luck with your beads from your beautiful rosa damascena.
THANK YOU I REALLY LOVE WHAT YOU DID CAN OTHER TYPES OF PETALS ORCHIDS ETC CAN BE USED TO MAKE BEADS
good question. I have only used roses. try it and let me know.
Tafari Wisdom
i have some dried orchids so i think with a little more i can try this. and you can make beads from other herbs. when i have the time and funds ill do experiments on the exact process.
Beautiful ❤🙌🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Hello Beatrice, my roses are a brown mush at the moment. It has been almost a month since I processed them. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong? Should I leave the pot open to air? I have been covering the pot?
Thanks! I look forward to your response!
I truly apologize for not getting back to you. I had a wrist surgery and was away from the computer for quite a while. The first thing that comes to my mind is whether you kept your rose mash in a cast iron pot as shown. Mine turn black within days in the pot. If you did have it In cast iron I wonder if it had a coating of some sort? I do keep the lid on my pot. I wonder if you were able to get some beads after all? Let me know.
Thank you ❤️ how beautiful you are love 😍
Would this beading making method work with all flowers or just roses?
Can I use dried rose petals from my Mums memorial flowers in the same way?
yes! it’s something we did for our grandmothers funeral
Hi! I was wondering what shall we do if we don’t have a cast iron pot available? What shall we use?
Hi, Ericka. The cast iron pot is important to the process. I haven't tried it with anything else. You should be able to find one inexpensively at a second hand store. A cast iron skillet would work also, and may be easier to find.
I have heard that a rusty nail helps do the job the same, but I've yet to try it for myself
What level do I set the magical food grinder on
It does not matter. Whatever works. The first grind is the most difficult and you may need to go more slowly.
can sweat cause the beads to turn your skin a different color? are these durable enough to wear daily?
Bambi, please forgive the delay in my reply. Technology is not my strength. OK, I wear my beads daily. The beads are durable and will not color your skin. In my spiritual tradition, it is said that the beads will break eventually and it is good luck. Just re string them.
@@beatricerose6183 thank you so much! ✨
What is this beautiful harp song in the background?
Its a song I recorded called "Crimson Morn" on my CD called Fairie Tales. My website has it and its also on Bandcamp as a single song. My website is www.LisaLynne.com and bandcamp.com search Lisa Lynne. I'm glad you like it!
Here is the exact link to the song, Crimson Morn
lisalynne1.bandcamp.com/album/album-fairie-tales
@@LisaLynne Thank you!
Hello!! I just had a question. I have a few roses i dried out a while ago, could i just add qater to them and still use them or do i need to start from scratch?
Thank you for your question. My method uses fresh roses. But there is a different method for the dried roses. Someone left instructions here among the comments with the method for dried roses. Try it and let me know how it works.
I use dried petals (am making a batch today!) Just separate the petals from stems and stamens, then if you have a coffee mill, grind them fine in that (I use a bit of cinnamon, 5 spice powder ...) and mix with water. I use a tea with rose geranium leaves and lavendar, and do simmer in a potpourri Crockpot (an hour daily for several days) - or you could try several rounds of processing as Beatrice does, with some of the Tea water!
Thank you for sharing this.
Have you / has anyone tried making these with rose petal powder? Is the process any different, minus the grinding?
I use the fresh method because I have so many roses. I would think that the method described below by scythscythe884 would work. Try it and let us know how it goes.
@@beatricerose6183 ok. Thank you 💜
What’s the song you are singing in the beginning?
This is a Gaelic chant of the ceili de, a major de. Translation: Oh, great mother, thy earthly light, wisdom and magic.
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Wish I could but my eyesight
I'm sorry to hear about your eyesight. I wonder if anyone could help you so you could have the experience. Once the clay is made, you could go by feel. The beads don't have to be perfect.
Thanks ❤🙏🏻Nam Yoho RENGE KYO
What is the beautiful song you song.
That is sweet of you to ask, Donna. It is a sacred chant of the "ceili de", A beautiful Celtic spiritual tradition from Scotland. Translation from Gaelic: "Oh, thou Mother God, your earthly light, wisdom and magic."
Beatrice Rose so beautiful thank you. I have made my first batch of beads and I love them. Thank you again. I just want to learn that beautiful chant now.
@@donnashay2078 The chant comes from an oral tradition and is not transcribed. However, on the ceili de website (I google ceilie de Scotland and it comes right up), there are CD's made for the purpose of learning the chants. There are 4 and this chant, "a mhathair dhe", is on #2. Be sure to get the little booklet that goes with the CD, for translations and pronunciation. I am so happy that you were successful with your beads.
Beatrice Rose thank you, you are a beautiful soul.
Beatrice Rose I keep looking and I can not find it. 😢 I love it. It just sounds so beautiful. I am in Florida.
I don’t have magical children 😭
They are a bonus, but not necessary. These are actually grandchildren who love to help Nana with the rose beads.
@@beatricerose6183 oh. okie dokie! your cool
Those aren't beads, those are lumps. Gross.
Beads are lumps. Wood, plastic, stone, plant paste (etc.) lumps. Didn't you know that?
Strange person
Today on “thoughts you should’ve kept to yourself”, because everything you say and think is only a reflection of yourself and not others…🤔🙆🏻♀️🫶🏼