As their name would suggest, folding fans will fold down to a compact ... you can’t go wrong with these silk hand fans with bamboo handles — they come in 18 different hues, ranging from ...

The “Great Wave” folding fan from the Fine Arts Museums ... fan used by Ms. Dunst in “Marie Antoinette” is a pink silk hand fan with a pleasing rose-colored tassel from the Etsy store ...

Folding fans were made with sticks of bone, ivory, bamboo, wood, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, lacquer, metal or more recently, plastic. They held a decorated cover of silk, paper, leather or ...

All counted fans among their most prized possessions–from showy arrays of ostrich plumes to webs of silk as fragile as ... in formal papal processions. Folding fans are thought to have ...

The collapsible folding hand fan first appeared in Japan circa 637 CE. While the fan (or leaf) was later made of paper, older hand fans were crafted from animal skins. Their handles (or montures ...