angelcherry
23-08-2007, 07:57 AM
Shaped fan Most ancient silk fans have the exquisite design and various decoration, that is said, shaped fan is very popular among the normal people with the both-sided single color, pulpy gold or blue porcelain color in various shapes of moon round, cashew and hexagonal. All of them have the calligraphy and golden painting on, which the name "shaped fan" comes. The handles of the fans are usually made of mottle bamboo and brown bamboo, also ivory as well. Regarding the detailed shape of silk fan, the moon round is the most, apart from this, there are shapes of hexagonal, octagon, polygonal, palm leaf and phoenix leaf etc. See picture 3-5, Chinese flowering apple, U-shaped and quincunx are also the usual shapes. On the cover of silk fan are the flower and bird, fish and bug, landscape, also figure and Buddha as well embroidered. Chinese embroidery had been already exquisite in Song dynasty.