We thought it would be fun to try making fans, since fans were a part of Regency life (and even had their own sort of language…see here: https://www.austentation.com/blogs/regency-fashion-history-1/fans)
We used the instructions here: https://www.ehow.com/how_4449525_make-japanese-fans.html?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic&epik=dj0yJnU9X3FIdXlWOVItWkV6Z0toNl9JYzF3cVhkVTZJQW5sT1MmcD0wJm49X0Q1RVJiUTV5YUtBamdJaEVCT0VfUSZ0PUFBQUFBR29La3k4
We thought it would look pretty to use lace, but then we had to put paper behind the lace, and it made the whole thing rather too fat for the sticks. So our fans didn't fold very well. Next time maybe we'd try just using a pretty wrapping paper (a thin one, or even tissue paper) to make it thinner.
Some other links about home life in the era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PzBxJfTsI Jane Austen’s house tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjUYBDzCig Behind the scenes at Apsley House
Make a paper sedan chair https://www.historicenvironment.scot/media/6193/make-your-own-edinburgh-sedan-chair.pdf
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/members-area/kids/kids-area---fashion-and-fads/marble-hill-craft/ make a model Georgian house
https://archive.org/details/miseriesofhumanl00bere/page/10/mode/2up the Miseries of Human Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUmbWSDqTc Lyme Park (Pemberley)
Gus and Clementine made this other kind of fan, just the accordian pleated kind, which worked pretty well—but even those had a hard time staying closed with their thick paper inside. Maybe our handles (plastic straws) just weren't strong enough.
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