Indra's Net
By Bea Nettles and Grace Nettles
Urbana, Illinois: Bea Nettles, 2008. Edition of 9.

4 x 22" scroll. Housed in a handmade circular tube, which is covered on one end by a tyvek lid with attached glass bead. Silver bell attached to interior of lid. Housing covered with sumingashi marbled silk. Printed on cotton rag paper by an Epson printer. Scroll verso marbled using sumingashi technique. Ribbon tie closure for scroll.

"Indra's Net" is a poem by Grace Noble Nettles from the book Corners: Grace and Bea Nettles. Grace Nettles, the bookmaker's mother, died in 2007. She was a teacher and a poet.

Bea Nettles: "This new scroll has just been completed in an edition of nine. The tubular boxes were crafted with hand marbled silk and silver tyvek coverings. When the lid is lifted, you will ring a small silver bell. The poem is printed on a spider-web background."

...One night she found herself she said

Caught in an Indra’s net of shining strands And at each crossing-place a memory was fastened Etched on a little silver bell.

So delicate and strong this net

Even her breathing would disturb the nearest bell And it would ring them all Thrilling the impulse out along the shimmering cord....

(SOLD)