JML My Foldaway Fan - Portable, collapsible, freestanding personal fan

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a b Verschuer, Charlotte von (2006). Across the perilous sea: Japanese trade with China and Korea from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries. Cornell University. p.72. ISBN 1-933947-03-9. Another Japanese creation enjoyed great success among foreigners: the folding fans. It was invented in Japan in the eighth or ninth century, when only round and fixed (uchiwa) fans made of palm leaves were known. -- their usage had spread throughout China in antiquity. Two types of folding fans developed: one was made of cypress-wood blades bound by a thread (hiogi); the other had a frame with fewer blades which was covered in Japanese paper and folded in a zigzag patterns (kawahori-ogi). "The paper fan was described by a thirteenth-century Chinese author, but well before that date Chōnen had offered twenty wooden-bladed fans and two paper fans to the emperor of China."

Find sources: "Hand fan"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Popular drag comedy webshow UNHhhh has used folding fans as a point of humour, with the sound made by a folding fan unfolding coined onomatopoeically as a "thworp" by the editors.Hand fans were absent from Europe during the High Middle Ages until they were reintroduced in the 13th and 14th centuries. Fans from the Middle East were brought by Crusaders, and refugees from the Byzantine Empire. European fan-makers have introduced more modern designs and have enabled the hand fan to work with modern fashion.

a b c d e f g "Chinese Fans | Chinese Art Gallery | China Online Museum". www.chinaonlinemuseum.com . Retrieved 2021-03-28. Yarwood, Doreen (2011). Illustrated encyclopedia of world costume. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-0-486-43380-6. OCLC 678535823. My Foldaway Fan has a telescopic stand that extends to a metre long. This means you can set your My Foldaway Fan on the floor by your bed, extend the stand, and have that cool air breezing above bed level across you and your partner all night. You can stand My Foldaway Fan in the corner of a room and fill the whole space with cool air. Have it extended on your desk, or a table, pointing down so it acts like a ceiling fan, cooling from above. Or, of course you can set the height at whatever you want. It’s always at the perfect height, and angle, to maximise its cooling potential. Compact and easy to store In the 15th and early 16th century, Chinese folding fans were introduced in Europe and later played an important role in the social circles of Europe in the 18th century. [4] [29] :82 The Portuguese traders first opened up the sea route to China in the 15th century and reached Japan in the mid-16th century, [30] :26 and appear to be the first people who introduced Oriental (Chinese and Japanese) fans in Europe which lead to their popularity, as well as the increased oriental fan imports in Europe. [4] [31] :251 Power settings – At the cheaper end of the price spectrum, a handheld fan will probably offer only one speed setting. If that’s unlikely to be powerful enough for you, consider paying extra for a fan with two or three speed settings. A fan needs to generate enough of a breeze to keep you cool.

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In 1685 the Edict of Nantes was revoked in France. This caused large scale immigration from France to the surrounding Protestant countries (such as England) of many fan craftsmen. This dispersion in skill is reflected in the growing quality of many fans from these non-French countries after this date. See also, the gunbai, a military leader's fan (in old Japan); used in the modern day as an umpire's fan in sumo wrestling, it is a type of Japanese war fan, like the tessen.