CHINESE TRADITIONAL CULTURE---Sublimation Transfer Paper for Chinese Fan

The fan, which is made of thin bamboo strips, thin silks, feathers, leaves of sunflowers, and papers, is a traditional Chinese handicraft used for cooling. Fans, for they can bring people cool, were called "Shelter from the Sun" in ancient China, and called "Cool Friends" by the literati. The craft work fans can be produced in a variety of types with graceful shapes and exquisite structures. China is always regarded as the kingdom of fans. In the history, fans made in China were sold to Japan and European and American countries, where Chinese fans exerted certain influences on the local fan-production and palace rites.

Fans, originally, were not used for cool, but for sheltering from the sun and keeping off sands for emperors during their outgoing inspections. To produce an exquisite fan, various artistic techniques should be integrated, including carving, weaving, knotting, calligraphy, painting, mounting, poker-work, jade article, lacquer work, embroidery, etc. Fans have many functions. Other than cooling in summer, they can act as tools during the artistic performance like pingtan (an art of Suzhou City), drama, dance and other folk arts. In the ancient times, dancers liked to hold fans while dancing, and the preference has been handed down until now. The fan dance has become a dancing art with distinctive Chinese characteristics.

However, we can DIY fan by ourselves with Feiyue paper. Sublimation, as a process is really very simple. It is the method of applying a dye printed image to a specially coated surface like ceramics, metals and polyester cloth, using three main ingredients: sublimation ink, transfer paper, heat and pressure.
Sublimation ink is unique in its ability to convert from a solid to a gas without going through a liquid form. The conversion is initiated by heat and controlled with pressure and time. Hard items such as ceramic mugs, tiles, fiber board, metals, etc. requires a special coating to accept the sublimation inks. You must purchase these materials like mugs, tiles, metals, etc. with the coating already on them, it is not something you can coat yourself.

With the development of “high speed” papers, manufacturers anticipate for the ever-increasing speed of the inkjet printers. These “high speed” papers, i.e. papers that dry considerably faster than the regular ones, meet the requirements of the latest generation of printers and even of tomorrow’s printers. It is especially noteworthy that the faster drying is not obtained at the expense of the transfer yield. Our paper fulfills the highest coloristic demands.
The fan consists of the surface cloth, 15 fan ribs and two straight fan handles, of which the surface is made of refined transfer print cloth.
Being made from bamboo, the fan is safe to environment, light, small and convenient to carry. In addition, both fan surface printable and can be custom made.

The fan is carefully made with the features of perfect hand fitting, deforming resistant, mildew free, water proof, moth proof and presentable.
Making  process:
1.Get images from digital camera, memory card or scanner.
2.Print image with heat transfer paper and sublimation ink
3.Stick the imaged paper on the bag surface.
4.Use the heat press machine to transfer the image onto bag.
5.Tear off the image paper on the bag and cool it for some time.
6.Enjoy your personal designed shoulder ba
Make DIY Fan

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