The hands are made of thin card. Pictures of the back and front of hands are printed on the cards on opposite sides, carefully aligned. Prayers are printed on the hands as required.
The cards are then folded in the obvious place, and cut around the hands to suggest a hand shape. Our front and back pictures are photographs of real hands, and don't fit together exactly, so we don't try to get an exact hand shape with fingers defined.
Here are the photographs, should you want them :
( The owner of the hands has gracefully waived copyright. )
We used the hands in two of our services :
2008 July