Use common sense when choosing a pattern. I have a lovely Beds fan from Louise Colgan's fan book that folds and unfolds just fine.
Decide whether you want the fan spread out for display, or folded. Once it's folded, it will have the folds in it's lace memory. I have mine folded because it's much easier to store it, and I didn't have a good place to display a framed fan. The first folding needs to be done carefully, and one stick at a time. In the USA, John Aebi in Indiana makes fan sticks. His short fan sticks fit the fans in Colgan's book. One time I bought a set of pretty fan sticks on eBay. When they arrived, they were about 15 inches tall. Huge. It was then I realized that there had been no size mentioned. My mind had 'seen' them as smaller when I looked at the pictures. I think the very large fans were the fashion at one point in history. Modern fans I've seen have been smaller. Alice in Oregon ... where we have a dry but very cold New Year's Day. Our high today is near the freezing point. I greeted the New Year making lace and toasting it with a glass of wine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Stillwell" <[email protected]> My no 8 perle gimps are not a problem, but if you want it to fold the fan rather than display it open then avoid the types of lace that have large holes, e.g. Beds, as these will stop the fabic of the lace from folding properly. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
