I've just uploaded a couple of images to my album on Arachne webshots.
The first is Louise Colgan's Bedfordshire fan from her book of fans. I decided to change the honeycomb ground section to blossom ground because I preferred it. I made in burgundy Madeira Tanne 40. I like my lace to be fairly dense.
The second shows different types of fan that I described in an earlier post which could lend themselves to designs of lace fan other than the familiar semi-circular leaf.
In case anyone's still not sure what a brise fan is, the top half shows a diagrammatic representation of one. The individual leaves could be various shapes, the important thing being that the lower part of the leaf is narrow; the top could be almost any width - something a bit like an oak leaf which is wide at the top than the bottom is one idea - and the number and widths of leaves can be varied.
The bottom part is a fan that I own made of ovals of crepe paper stuck on the top part of each stick. There's a fine thread stitched through the bottom layers and around the backs of the sticks to stop it opening too far. The crepe paper could be replaced with lace ovals, squares or other shapes.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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