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Prayer bead and craft counting guides
Some counting is a practice in itself. These guides cover the counts kept on prayer beads across faiths, from the 33 beads of a tasbih to the 108 of a mala and the decades of a rosary, and the counting a knitter does row by row when a pattern says to increase or decrease evenly.
All prayer beads and crafts guides
Salat al-Tasbih countsThe 75 glorifications in each of four rakat, the two ways the 15 and the 10s are placed, and a count sheet for keeping track.Published · 7 min read
Catholic chaplets, counted by bead and by prayerFour Catholic chaplets counted by prayer, a table of bead counts for a dozen more, and why sources disagree.Published · 7 min read
One tasbeeh is equal to how many?The same phrase means a count of a hundred, a bead loop, a single dhikr, or the set after salah. Which one is meant, and when.Updated · 9 min read
How many beads on prayer beads, by religionA sourced table of bead counts across ten traditions, and why sources give different numbers for the same strand.Published · 10 min read
How to read knitting shaping instructionsEvery 4th row, alt rows, at each end, AT THE SAME TIME — translated, with the rows they land on.Published · 9 min read
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