Jean wrote: Alternately, if the fan is going to be kept open for display, winding thread around the rivet at the back where it won't show will keep the sticks tight. This was a problem I had when I made my 20" point ground fan for an IOLI competition. My sticks were ebony and about 3 of them were broken, which I removed. After cleaning the old disintegrating cover off the sticks I cleaned them only to find that the tops of the interior sticks were painted and it came off. I solved that by painting them matt black, but I still had to deal with the looseness on the rivet. I made a dangling cord out of tatting that was thick enough to take up the space and large enough to go around my wrist. At the bottom of this I had a small tatted fan shape complete with sparkly beads. I spent a long time getting my design just right so that the sticks were mostly hidden by motifs, but that did not matter as I backed the lace with blue silk. I also spent time getting it to fold correctly for the competition and was disappointed to see that many of the entries did not fold. My fan is now in a shadow box so it would not have need to fold at all! Decide what you want to do with the finished fan before you spend time doing something that might not be necessary. Janice
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