How to make beads from bread

The technology of making beads out of bread invented by prisoners in places of deprivation of freedom for a very long time. Beads are used by prisoners are not for counting out of prayers, but in order to show the cult object of their belonging to a certain group in the hierarchy of prison society.

You will need

• Bread made with white flour 2-3 varieties or flour of the same quality, sugar, chintz, or calico.

Instruction

1. To make beads from bread you will need: bread, better suited to lower quality of white flour grades 2-3, sugar, cloth for wiping. Easy white bread with added artificial raspustila as Turkish, for example, is not suitable. Remove the bread crumb from the crust, add to a saucepan, add the sugar to the eye, the precise proportions can only be computed empirically.
2. Pour contents of the pan with boiling water and leave for a couple of days in a warm place. The willingness of the mass can be determined by a characteristic sour smell, it soured bread. Now remove the material from the water, gently squeeze it, grind through a piece of calico or printed cotton, the remnants of discard.
   
   The obtained grinded Timko lay on the cellophane to dry, stirring occasionally and turning over. When the mass in its consistency becomes similar to clay, vilaite of her rosary links. If they decompose in a row with intervals of about 5 mm, the total length should equal the length of your palm, this is for the rocker beads.
3. Because in the end you get a very strong product, after drying of the links should be pierced by their needle with strong synthetic thread. After drying, the thread should be prodelyvat that it is not stuck, and the holes were rectoceles to the desired size, for best glide. Should be the same mold or cut with a knife patterns and symbols, while the material is still pliable.
   
   Painted in black color prayer beads can pereterev in the plastic mass prior to molding a few tablets of activated charcoal. If you are planning to bake the product, other colors can be achieved by adding the weight of the paste of ballpoint pens.
4. When the links to dry completely, for maximum strength beads, remove them from the thread, put in some time in the cold oven of the gas stove, bring the temperature to 120-150 degrees, calcined, without increasing the heat. After cooling you can cut with a knife or cutters sliding down the contours of the figure or patterns, then collect the finished product.