17 Sep 22:
Wandering around our local Picker's Market we spotted beads for sale, vintage Macrame beads, back in the day when they were made of good wood. Skipper did some negotiating and we came home with 1488 beads, not that we counted them or anything. About half of the beads can be used to make parrels, a loop or sliding collar by which a yard or spar is held to a mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered.
Skipper's Drascombe Lugger, which is a high peaked gunter rig, uses parrels on the upper half of the mast and on the bottom section of the main luff. We've replaced several beads over the years, and over the last decade or so good quality beads have been hard to come by.
If you want to make a statement with your parrels, or macrame, we also got this assortment.
But here are the type ob beads we use for parrels.
We let our Forum network know and we have already sent a set of beads of to a new Lugger owner in Kentucky. Send me a gmail note to lewis dot kent if you are in the market.
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