On Aug 10, 2006, at 23:06, Barbara Joyce wrote:
I have a beautiful Bucks pattern for a
fan that I'd really love to do. How do I go about getting fan sticks
that
are approximately the right size for this pattern?
Does anyone know of any sources for pretty fansticks?
There are wonderful fansticks makers in the lace world and I'm sure
that the Arachneans will "deliver", with their URLs and e-addresses, as
usual. I can't, because I'm not "into" fans and don't have those in my
addressbook.
But I'd haunt antiques stores first, if I were looking for pretty
sticks; they're likely to have some fans with badly damaged leaves,
which might be available for a reasonable price, especially if one or
two of the sticks were damaged as well.
I'd also haunt junk stores. 35-45 yrs ago, China used to mass-produce
fans with beautifully carved sticks in bamboowood, sandalwood or bone
and pretty crude/tacky paper leaves. Don't know if they ever reached US
-- China was very "red" and, possibly, "not acceptable" here -- but
there was a deludge of them in Poland, dirt cheap at the time. If they
had been exported to US as well, they'd be too new to be called
antiques but they might lurk in junk shops.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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