Manufacturing method of lantern

(a) Put the bamboo in the steam room (or heat it for half an hour), then take it out and put it in the shade to dry, but it should not be excessively dried or irradiated by strong light.

(2) Scrape the rough epidermis.

(3) The length of bamboo cutting depends on the size of lanterns.

(4) The lamp holder is crossed by weaving method.

(5) Tie several bamboo rings on the lamp wall in the middle of the lamp holder.

(6) Paste the lanterns with cotton yarn first, and then paste two layers of lantern single glazed paper (if there is no single glazed paper, fine cotton paper can also be used. ) to stick cotton gauze, first brush the diluted paste evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then gently stick the cut gauze on the lamp holder, and then brush it flat with a brush. It should be noted here that the brush for brushing paste must be clean, otherwise the lamp surface will be dirty. At the same time, the pasted paper must be pasted without seams in order to be truly pasted.

(7) Put the lanterns in a cool and ventilated place to dry.

(8) painting. Painted with personal patterns, such as figures, eight immortals, flowers and birds, ladies and so on.

(9) After painting, decide whether to write or not according to the situation. When the words and patterns are completely dry, the lantern is finished.