In the personal belief that much of the misery of the hotflash could be relieved by a folding fan revival, I offer this modest collection of links to sites concerned with the fan in history, with fan collecting, and with suppliers of modern-day folding fans in several price ranges.

General Sites About Fans

• International Fan Collector's Guild
  Museum, Books, Links, more
  http://www.hand-fan.org/

• All About Hand Fans with Cynthia Fendel
  http://members.aol.com/fancollect/fan.html

• The Fan Museum
  http://members.aol.com/fancollect/fan.html

• Fan Tales -- A promotional site for a book/CD, but with some interesting photos of fans from the Walgreen Museum
  http://www.fantales.com/indexmain.htm

• The Worshipful Company of Fanmakers
  http://www.fanmakers.co.uk

• The Fan Attic -- A small site put up by John and Pippa Brooker, a husband-and-wife team who are, quite literally, fanmakers to the stars! Their credits include Sense and Sensibility and Shakespeare in Love. (Brooker is a member of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers)
  http://www.fanmaker.co.uk/

• Advertising Fans: A Century of Cool Messages
  http://www.antique-shoppe.com/

• Chinese Fans From chinanews.org
  http://www.chinanews.org/PictorialChina/85e2249.html

• Twentieth century Indian fan from University of Pennsylvania
  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/nalin/47.html

• Kyo-Sensu, Kyo-Uchiwa
  http://www.joho-kyoto.or.jp/~chuokai/esen.html

• Japanese Folding Fan (Fascinating online exhibition from Russia's slowest server)
  http://gallery.nsc.ru/Exhibitions/interlinks/fans/rf.html

• Fan Collection Preserved from the Western Association for Art Conservation site
  http://sul-server-2.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn05/wn05-1/wn05-104.html

• Seventeenth-Century (Edo) Uchiwa from MOA Museum of Modern Art
  http://www.moa.or.jp/english/setsugekka/setsu-pic14.html

• 20th century watercolor of 19th century fan, National Gallery of Art (U.S.A.)
  http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iadcost/iadcost-14300.0.html

• Kyo Sensu -- from Japan Atlas, Traditional Crafts
  http://jinjapan.org/atlas/crafts/cra15.html

• International Folding Fan Exhibition -- Three gorgeous images
  http://www.cmpk.or.jp/user/yuriko/Printsaurus/fans/rf.html

• Flamenco accessories and Spanish fans (I've seen this woman perform)
  http://www.boutique-flamenco.com/

• Maryon Victoriana (Spanish fans from the Isle of Wight)
  http://www.victoriana.co.uk/system/shopassistant.htm

• A Fan Stick Carver: Malcolm Cox (in case you'd like to make your own)
  http://www.connect.ie/users/mcox/index.html

• The Lace Guild
  http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/

• Chiang Mai Fans
  New supplier of painted fabric fans from Thailand. Web site still under construction and hand fans not yet included in order form. Worth watching.
  http://www.orientalfan.com/

• Oriental Trading Company
  Referred by Kalli. Wonderful utilitarian fans, nice and cheap, so you can order them by the dozens and not break the bank. This link takes you directly to their fan page
• http://www.oriental.com/servlet/Search?search=fan&Num=11
  If they reorganize their web site, try the home page
  http://www.oriental.com/

• MyGift Marketing will print your design on paper fans (min. quantity, 300)
  http://www.mygifts.com.my/misc1.htm

• GiftsforGrads -- another custom fan printer
  http://www.greatgiftsforgrads.com/1_00__under_products/hand_fan.htm

• Hand Fan Productions. They'll do something for fan fanciers, but I haven't figured out exactly what
  http://members.aol.com/handfanpro/

• Fan Fair from The Silk Road (oriental fans for sale)
  http://www.silkroadinc.com/fanfair/

• Sensu or folding fans (in the $100 range)
  http://www.kimono-ya.com/sensusele.html

• Booster Fans. For as little as $1.04 each (in quantities of 1,000) you can have your design imprinted on these ugly corrugated plastic (yecch) hand fans
  http://www.spiritline.com/signpage.htm

• Breezerfancards (indescribable promotional item)
  http://www.breezerfancards.com/

• How to fold a napkin into a fan shape and stuff it into a goblet (!)
  http://www.milliken.com/tablelinen/goblet.html

• Hand painted (expensive) paper fans
  http://www.homeboutique.com/homeboutique/hanpapfan.html

   

• IDECO hand fans for sale (except they're out of stock...but the pictures are gorgeous)
  http://www.ideco.com/fans/