Collecting Fashion Fans - Makers Types Styles Materials Dates / Scarce Book

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FANS
by Nancy Armstrong, Souvenir Books, Canada, 1984.
”This fascinating and informative book, written by one of the leading experts on the fan and its history, remains the best guide for novice and experienced collector alike, offering a wealth of practical information unavailable elsewhere.”  With 40 photographs in color and 49 in black-and-white, this lavishly illustrated book,
FANS
, is a pictorial survey of a wide variety of decorative fans.  It includes a short history of the fan; a unique and detailed catalogue of fan types, styles and materials, presented alphabetically; a section on fan illustrations, covering the pitfalls created by period costume, and describing techniques used from watercolors and gouache to tempura and printing; chapters on the language of the fan, fan maker’s techniques in the Orient and in Europe, displaying, storing, cleaning and repairing fans, and on the fan guilds.  This is an indispensable reference book for the collector, dealer or historian of antique fans.
6.9” x 9.1” softback in very good+ condition. 175 pages.
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