Here are the color combinations available for your projects.  Any of them can be used for stoles, altar cloths and/or prayer stoles.  Please choose your preference for your project/s by color combo number.

Color Combo 1 (persian green 3/2, gold beige 3/2, green ribbon 113)

Color Combo 2 (black 3/2, stone 3/2, beige gold 3/2, gold/white ribbon 66)

Color Combo 3 (california gold 3/2, medium brown 3/2, white 3/2, gold ribbon 123)

Color Combo 4 (red 3/2, beige gold 3/2, sari ribbon red)

Color Combo 5 (deep purple 3/2, persian green 3/2, lavender 3/2, purple ribbon #107)

Color Combo 6 (soldier blue 3/2, lavender 3/2, blue ribbon #72)

Color Combo 7 (dark teal chenille, rainbow wool 118)

Color Combo 8 (safari 3/2, eggplant chenille, rainbow wool 116)

Color Combo 9 (deep purple 3/2, stone 3/2, rainbow wool 119)

Color Combo 10 (eggplant chenille, lavender 3/2, rainbow wool 122)

Color Combo 11 (safari 3/2, dark sirra 3/2, rainbow wool 108)

Color Combo 12 (deep turquoise 3/2, soldier blue 3/2, rainbow wool 113)

Color Combo 13 (lavender 3/2, dusty coral 3/2, tangerine 3/2, rainbow wool 117)

Color Combo 14 (lavender 3/2, wine 3/2 eggplant chenille, rainbow wool 115)

In time for Summer Solstice, Will is producing several “Celebrant’s Stoles” appropriate for all spiritual traditions, from Animist to Zoroastrian. They are especially appropriate for those who celebrate the sacredness of the Solstice.  Their rainbow design also makes them especially appropriate as Marriage Equality Stoles, and their use of the Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Mean make them meaningful for all Gnostic traditions, including Christian.

These stoles are 8′ long (plus two 3″ fringes) by about 6″ wide – a substantial stole in brilliant colors to make a substantial point.  The warp threads are black, gold, red, green, purple, blue, gold, and red – in the Fibonacci Numbers Sequence of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, 21.  The extra golden thread in the center is emblematic of the Golden Mean (see below.)  The two shown above have wefts of white, and red.  There will be two more stoles in other colors.

Each or these stoles is unique, one-of-a-kind, and will not be duplicated.  They are woven from 100% mercerized cotton, and are gently washable.

Price:  $110.00 (plus shipping)

Order now through the EphodsandPomegranates.com website, in time for Summer Solstice.

The Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Mean

The mathematics of the golden ratio and of the Fibonacci sequence are intimately interconnected. The Fibonacci sequence is:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ….

The closed-form expression for the Fibonacci sequence involves the golden ratio:

The golden ratio is the limit of the ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence (or any Fibonacci-like sequence), as originally shown by Kepler:^[20]

Therefore, if a Fibonacci number is divided by its immediate predecessor in the sequence, the quotient approximates φ; e.g., 987/610 ≈ 1.6180327868852. These approximations are alternately lower and higher than φ, and converge on φ as the Fibonacci numbers increase.

The Golden Mean (1.6180327868852…..) is a key component of Sacred Geometry, significant in many spiritual traditions as the expression of meaning in the Universe.

Now available in this limited number of Fibonacci Rainbow Celebrant’s Stoles.

~ Will Melnyk

“Resurrection”                                      “Iona”

Personal Prayer Stoles are a wonderful way to wrap your personal sacred space around you wherever you are.  Not jut for clergy!

“Resurrection” – The gold, green and purple colors of resurrection and spring.  100% mercerized cotton.  About 64″ x 4.5″  Price:  $35.00  Order in our Etsy Shop

“Iona” – Reminiscent of the green grass and purple heather of the West End Hills on the Holy Isle of Iona.  Made from the same Acrylic Homespun yarn as our popular Iona Shawls.  About 74″ x 5″.   Price: $50.oo       Order in our Etsy Shop