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This is a 5 Inch DreamWeb that measures almost 15 Inches from the top of the hanging loop to the tip of it's longest feather.

It's made from a Brass Ring, a Cotton Quilting Square, Glass Monkey Head beads, Pony Beads and Dyed Turkey Feathers.

I've had the Glass beads for a long time, but the fabric was a new purchase. The weaving is white cotton craft thread.

It would be good for a person who loves monkeys or just because it's cute.

The Three Wise Monkeys embody the Japanese principal of See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil. They are Mizaru, who covers his eyes, Kikazaru, who covers his ears, and Iwazaru, who covers his mouth.
In China, Confucius laid out a similar proverb. "Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety"

It can be said that the principal came from China to Japan or the other way around, rather like the chicken and the egg.

But it might be from a Shinto shrine at Nikko. The monkey is said to be a messenger in the Shinto religion. There are celebrations during every Year of the Monkey and a special one every sixteen years for the Taoists who practiced a Japanese version of their faith.

The three monkeys were also described as attendants of the Lord of the Roads, Koshin. The Koshin festival was held on the 60th day of the calendar. During this period it was said that one's bad deeds might be reported to heaven unless action was taken. It has been thought that the three Mystic Apes may have been the bad deeds you've committed during the previous 59 days.

Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi's one aberration from his life of non-possession was a statue of the three monkeys that he carried with him.

Even in Zoroastrianism, there were the three tenets of Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta: good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

These days "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" is commonly used to describe someone who doesn't want to be involved in a situation, or someone who turns a blind eye to the baness of an act in which they are involved. The Italian version, "Non vedo, non sento, non parlo" (I see nothing, I hear nothing, I say nothing), expresses the Omertà, a code of silence enforced by criminal organizations.

I will gladly combine shipping for more than one item.

Please contact me for shipping if you're not from the States.

I've had these glass beads forever. I'm not keen on monkeys except for Baboons, which are an avatar of the Sacred Scribe, Thoth.

But I found the Fat Quarter and figured it was about danged time that I made something with them. I hadn't looked at them in so long I didn't even remember how many I had...rather fortuitous dontcha think?

Brass Ring, Cotton Fabric, Cotton Thread, Glass Beads, Pony Beads, Feathers