With lace design patterns like Lace R-XP (the only one I've got any real
experience with), you can convert a straight design into a fan pattern just
by changing the grid from say 45 degrees (torchon) to polar and positioning
the design towards the outer or inner edges depending on the size of the
half circle you need for the inner edge.
I don't know if this can be done by scanning a straight design into a
graphics program and then applying a curve to it, but I don't see why it
shouldn't be possible.
There are a couple of books of fan patterns - Louise Colgan (I think), Anne
Margaret Keller and Anne Collier are the ones which immediately spring to
mind.
The rule is to fit your pattern to the sticks. It's very difficult to alter
a pattern to fit sticks which don't match the pattern. It isn't just a case
of enlarging or reducing an existing pattern. It's equally difficult to find
sticks to fit a pattern. There are some kits - SMP sell both sticks and
kits. Kleinhout also sell sticks http://www.kleinhout.com/GB/fans/ but the
fans they list on their main site which have no photos, but which they say
you can choose the number of sticks and cut them down are not the same as
the stick shown in their download section..
The one size of fan sticks which are readily available for which there are
very few patterns which will fit is the Spanish fans which people often buy
on holiday. One thing I have done is to buy Chinese paper fans on bamboo
sticks, If you remove the paper, the ribs are the same all the way up, so
any curve will fit. They won't all be the same length because they slide
into slots between two layers of paper. If you hold the ribs together by
winding an elastic band tightly around them, you can saw the ends off level
to end up with a frame of the size you want. If there are too many ribs, you
can remove some and put a bead on the rivet (I put them on the back so they
don't shows (you don't usually look at the back when the fan is finished) so
that the head is still tight on the rivet.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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