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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ne end by a pin, which serves asthe axis. They are collapsible into a narrow shape, andmay be opened-out to a semi-circle. They are held-togetherby a ribbon drawn through them (fig. 13). 5. The Folding fan: distinguished from the preceding by thelamellae being covered by a sheet of paper, silk, &c., whichis folded - together or spread-out by the opening of the stickswhich compose the frame (fig. 14). It appears from this that the Fixed, the Pennon, and the Radialfans have handles, while the Lamellar and the Folding fans have not.The Radial fan, being a folding fan with a handle, is a kind of inter-mediate form. The size of the fan varies according to fashion andthe purpose for which it is intended, regard being usually paid toconvenience of handling; as a general rule, it may be said that thefirmer, stiffer and more impervious to air the fan is: the smaller itmay be. Fans for cooling should have a short, broad form, Fly-flappers require a longer, narrower shape. METAL OBJECTS. 415
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The Fan. Plate 289. 416 The Fan. On the subject of history and style, the following may be said:The Fixed fan is the oldest and most primitive. Its natural model isa leaf on a stalk, just as savages at the present time make their fansof dried palm-leaves or of plaited work in the form of leaves (fig. 4).The feather may also be regarded as a natural model, and hence itsfrequent application to fans of every kind. The Pennon fan is theleast practical, its domain is the Middle Ages and the early Eenascence,together with certain parts of the East (India, Turkey, Morocco,Tunis, &c.). The Eadial fan was also in use in the Middle ages (witha long handle), and down to the present time in certain parts of Italy,Persia, China, and Japan. The Lamellar and the Folding fan are oflater date. Their introduction is contemporaneous with the generaluse of the fan in Europe (15 th century). After the period of thelamellar fan in the 17 th century, follows the golden age of the foldingfan in the Rococ

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