Make your own summer breeze with a hand-fan a zillion times more gorgeous than the maps on weather.com. All of these taken from the June email of Fan d’Eventails, Paris, France.

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Beauty with carnations hand-fan. Tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the sticks having bone tips with the leaf in very fine point de gaze needle lace and silver cartels painted with carnations and a dreamy young girl. French Second Empire. Maker not known. Lace identified by lace expert Edwige Renaudin. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4349-beauty-with-carnations-second-empire-period-fan.html
Tortoiseshell fan with feather marquetry, painted with two girls sitting on a swing. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4366-girls-feather-fan-circa-1900.html

Bone brisé fan, painted with a scene of ladies greeting the king, after an illustration by Maurice Leloir. Early 20th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4343-ladies-greeting-the-king-fan-after-maurice-leloir-early-20th-century.html
Woman’s reverie fan design. Project for a fan, paper painted with a young woman daydreaming on a balcony overlooking a river. Belle Époque. Framed and under glass. Signed H. Meunié and dated February 1893. The back bears an incomplete exhibition label with the title “Rêverie” and the name of the painter. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/4367-woman-s-reverie-fan-design-by-meunie-period-belle-epoque.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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