Achiral fans

[pozorvlak]

It's a little-appreciated fact that fans are chiral (ie, they come in left-handed and right-handed versions). Don't believe me? Lend your favourite fan to a friend, and watch them try to open it the wrong way, messing up the spokes. This has two downsides: first, the fact that your friends will infallibly open your fans the wrong way and damage

Comments

[azrelle]

you need to get into burlesque mate. Modern fans, particularly the feather fans, open both ways. You can buy flat bamboo fan staves in art shops usually.

At the moment i'm coincidentally building an ostrich feather fan. Nobody will be getting to borrow it anyway but it does open two ways

[pozorvlak]

Ta! I'll look into that. Do the achiral ones work as I suggested?

I don't find the feather ones work as well as paper for actually keeping you cool, but maybe I've only used rubbish feather ones.

[azrelle]

it does, but i'm not so convinced it will work with paper. Feathers dont have to reverse fold themselves

[pozorvlak]

I don't think that will be so much of a problem - though it depends on the stiffness of the paper, I suppose. I could always use silk...

[roseofoulesfame]

where can you get feather fans that open both ways?
nice ones, i mean...

[azrelle]

i'm talking the huge huge feather fans here

www.ostrichesonline.co.uk are the only carrier in the UK that I have heard of

[pozorvlak]

I take it "20 inches x 12 inches" is width-when-open x height-when-open?

[azrelle]

aye

as i said huge huge

[pozorvlak]

That's about the same size as one of my paper ones. The airflow is fantastic :-)

HUGE Feather Fans -Sally Rand Type

[azrelle]

You can also purchase these fans from a place in the United States called The Scarlett Rose - email them for pictures and prices they are very reasonable info@scarlett-rose.org They are much better than Ostrichesonline, since they use 2 feathers per each staves. I found them on E-bay.

[pozorvlak]

And are you sure you want to see me in burlesque wear? It's not a pretty sight...