How to make a lantern luminous effect

If you put it indoors, you just need to light a regular candle in the lantern; if you want to carry it out, you'd better make a simple circuit with bulbs and batteries.

Practice 1:

1, make the skeleton. Paper lanterns are relatively simple shape is a cube or cylinder, the best choice can be bent bamboo branches or bamboo bark to build a frame, articulation of the place with a thin line tied tight.

2, making the body of the lamp.? In the store to buy a few white, red plain rice paper or gilt rice paper, cut to meet the length and width of the lantern skeleton, you can design your own pattern.

3, make the light source. If you want to put it indoors, you only need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; if you want to carry it out, you'd better make a simple circuit with a light bulb and batteries.

4, in order to beautiful, we can also add some small decorations. The picture below is a finished product, but I forgot to take a picture of the steps, so I made a new small lantern, the method is the same, add small decorations below, and the top with a line to carry it can be.

Practice two:

1, the bamboo in the steam room heated for half an hour, and then take out, placed in the shade to dry, but shall not be excessively dry, and can not be placed in the sun under the strong light.

2, ? Use bamboo planer to remove the rough epidermis of the cow's surface.

3.? Cut the bamboo strips to the desired length; this depends on the size of the lantern.

4. Weave the bamboo strips in a crisscross pattern to complete the frame.

5. In the center of the frame, tie several rings of bamboo around the wall of the lantern.

6. Glued lanterns, first laminated cotton gauze, and then glued two layers of paper for lanterns with a single light. Framing cotton gauze cloth to be the first diluted paste, even flat brush on the surface of the skeleton, and then cut the gauze lightly attached to the lamp frame, and then use a brush dipped in paste to brush flat, here need to pay attention to, brush flat paste brush must be a clean brush, otherwise, the lamp surface will be a dirty mess. At the same time, the laminating paper must be glued without seams before the real laminating is complete.

7, will be placed in a cool ventilated place to dry.

8,? Color painting. Painting to individual required pattern painting, such as figures, eight immortals, birds and flowers, ladies and so on.

9,? After painting, depending on the situation to decide whether to write text. When the text, the pattern is completely dry, and then a layer of tung oil, and then wait for the tung oil shade dry, the lantern is completed.