In the vibrant landscape of Chinese culture and tradition, a new trend has emerged that has captivated the hearts and minds of millions: DIY lacquer-coated fans. As 2024 unfolds, this delightful craft has surged in popularity, blending artistic expression with cultural heritage in a way that resonates deeply with people of all ages.
The Process: From Plain Fan to Lacquered Masterpiece
Creating a lacquer-coated fan only need several easy steps:
1. Preparing the Fan
The journey begins with selecting a plain, unfinished fan. These are typically made of bamboo and paper. There are many different shapes in different sizes for selection.
2.Preparing the Lacquer
The lacquer here used is derived from the sap of the lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum),it must be tempered with orange oil which could make it float on water.
The basic colors of the lacquer are Black, White, Silver, Gold, Blue, Purple, Green , Yellow, Orange and Red. From these basic colors, you could mix to get any color you want.
3.Lacquer Coating Process
Here comes to the most important and funniest step.
First to prepare a bucket of clean water, then drop the lacquer on the water surface in the order of your favorite color matching.
The general color matching is 1 main color plus 2 secondary colors. Of course, you can also freely combine and create according to your understanding of colors. To get a beautiful color, you could use a small stick to slide the paint.
Next, put your fan into the water slowly to cover the floating colors. After entirely be coated, take the fan out of the water vertically, use the tissue paper an gently press to absorb excess water on the fan surface.
Now you will get a very pretty and absolutely unique art fan.
With different color combinations, you will get different styles ,they are half man-made and half natural, so every fan is the unique one in the world:
Chinese Lacquer Fan, with beautiful colors, everyone can learn it and everyone can be an artist
From the above inspiration, there are many other materials and blanks could use this lacquer coating technology. It could explore to Lacquer coating Paper Umbrella, Lacquer coating Ceramic Vases, Lacquer coating Paper Fans, Lacquer coating Easter Eggs, Lacquer coating Book Marks, Lacquer coating Gift Tags and so on.
If you are arts and crafts importer or retailer, this is a new trend you must know. If you want to bring the lacquer coating craft kits to your customers, just contact us to get the proposals.
