Handmade folding fan production method

Handmade folding fan making tutorial:

1, parts of the folding fan: fan cloth (paper), ring fasteners, fan section bracket.

2, prepare the bracket by facing the bracket outward, sandwiching the center bone between them, and inserting the loop fastener. The finish will look like this. (All seven are the same length).

3. Draw a semicircle with a compass on plain paper. First, draw a straight line (red) and determine the center (yellow x). From the center of the bone hole, write a circle the same length as the tip of the bone (outside the black line) and a circle (inside the black line) about halfway down.

4. Cut out the fan shape with the drawn lines. We will make the mountain fold (red line) and the valley fold (yellow line) in 16 equal parts. For reference, start by folding it in half, half and half, folding it into a mountain fold, folding it like a mountain pleat and forming a valley fold.

Folding Fans

Also known as "Sado Fans", "Paper Fans", and "_Fans", "pinch fan", "folding fan", "folding fan", "poly head fan", "poly bone fan", "_zi fan", "whirlwind fan", "tight head fan". It is a kind of fan that can be folded with bamboo, wood or ivory as the fan bone and tough paper or damask silk as the fan surface; when used, it must be spread out into a semicircular shape and gather the head and scatter the tail.

The earliest record of Chinese folding fan appeared in the fifth century A.D. in the era of China's North and South Dynasties in the Southern Liang Jiankang (now Nanjing), "Southern Qi Book", "Chu Yuan to waist fan barricade the sun." According to the "waist fan" according to the "Tong Jian Note" on the explanation "that folding fan."