Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-10-13
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fish pearl inlaid with gold. These sticks
paler in coloring. The inlaying was
floral -Marguerites, daffodils and roses
and the design was repeated in the
lace, where the rose petals were de-
tached and huttered with every move
ment of the fan. This is an illustration
of the exceeding beauty of some of the
most costly class of fans, which are of
enormous size. Most of those not made
of lace have lace borders, supported by
the sticks which constitute a part and
parcel of the fan itself, coming to the
very edge of the lace.
The artistic feeling of the day is
shown in the equisite beauty of the
painted fans. White and black satin
fans, large in size, display the most adj
mirable punches of roses, flags, passion
flowers, lilies and hundreds of other
flowers, all SO true to nature in form
and coloring that you feel you could
pluck them. These have the lace bor-
dering. Another favorite painted fan
is in sepia, with charming Watteau-like
scene on cream, and equally beautiful
are the black fans of gray and white,
with figure subjects. Many of these
black fans have an applique of lace laid
on all around. Large fans, oval at the
top, with the side ends shorter than
those in the center, composed entirely
of smooth, shiny feathers, generally
shaded, such as red and green, are new.
They have mostly a silver ring slipped
over them. Their great beauty is in
the shading, especially in the gray
tones. They are also to be had in
plain colors. and they as often as not,
have a butterfly in green feathers set
Ting on them. They are composed en-
tirely of small pigeon feathers, and the
sticks of many of them are inlaid with
gold. Another class of the same sort
of fan is made with tips of contrasting
color, and some are spaced, such as
brown, gray and gold, green, gray and
black.
Another novelty is that in the center
of many of these feather ribs oblong
pieces of ivory are let in. But with all
these fans, the same half crescentshape
is preserved-short at the sides, long in
the center.
Circular fans of marabout, shaded
and III plain %colors, not cOllapsible, are
costly and most fashionable. There is
a cheaper fan of the same class made
of feathers, with n claw handle, and a
beetle or a butterfly in metal resting on
it.
Circular fans covered with lace or
with flowers, real or limitation, are
among the latest intrOductions, and
really good additions to a dress.
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fans. Very fashionable are large black
satin fans, lined with old gold or some
other color, with a huge monkey or a
parrot painted on it, the coloring ear
ried down on the stick. Some cotton
fans at low prices, in brown shades,
with colored sticks, like cherrywood,
have designs of Kate Greenawav figures
in black outline; and a very large num-
Der of huge lowered c%retonne fans are
selling.
Much of the old point lace shaped
for fans is now being remOunted, and
even among those handed down as old,
the sticks and the lace are OF very diff
ferent periods. The sticks of Louis
XIV. period are the most valuable.
No one can do wrong in wearing an
antique fan Of almost any period,
whether it be of ancient silver liligree
or Oriental, or what not. There is a
constant demand for these, especially
for a very rare Venetian dagger fan,
which is only portable as n fan, for it
is a veritable s%tilletto incased in ivory,
after thefashion of n fan, and doubtless
of Oriental origin, for the Chinese have
n dangerous dagger fan, SO disguised
that no II would guess its use, This
matter has n also like a bludgeon-of
solid steel, handsomely ornamented,
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