Making jewelry of rosaries

[alice24]

…I´m researching a bit on the traditional clothing of my grandpa´s home town, and they used to wear large necklaces with crosses woven in that are basically rosary crosses. Sometimes those necklaces even included relics.
Now as I plan a little home tailored fashion collection, I want to adapt some influeces of my family´s home regions and also those necklaces. You can´t buy them, this tradition is dead.
Now to my question- I only find real antique rosaries for this project online, but often no mark if they were blessed. I can´t and shouldn´t manufacture with blessed items, right? Is there a way to use this “secular”?
Of course I don´t plan to buy relics for this!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Once the rosary is sold, the blessing vanishes. It also vanishes if the item is so broken it no longer really resembles a rosary.
If you are concerned about harming usable rosaries, there is a market on Etsy and eBay for pieces of broken ones. People use them for jewelry or to repair old rosaries or make new.

You can also make rosary-looking jewelry from scratch. “Rosary necklaces” have been quite trendy among the rock 'n goth set.

 

[alice24]

Thank you very much! Yes, I was concerned about the blessing. Good to know! If they aren´t broken on the cross itself, I can use it for the necklaces, I didn´t new a rosary would count as broken then. I looked for rosary style jewelry, but this is a bit problematic, as I don´t want to hurt any license when I sell them and I would prefer some athentic ones from the 19th century as the decoration is a bit more suitable for the design. But I will give etsy a new chance, didn´t ckecked it out for a longer time