{"product_id":"korean-folding-fan-41","title":"Mother-of-Pearl Folding Fan (IV)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Korean fan kept, not the kind discarded — and increasingly hard to find made by hand.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHapjukseon: the Korean folding fan in the old tradition — bamboo ribs split and shaped by hand, hanji paper laid and finished one fan at a time. Functional in summer, but really an object of quiet display the rest of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost fans are disposable. This one belongs to an older idea — that even an everyday object deserves to be made beautifully enough to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWhy hand-made changes the object\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA machine-made fan and a hand-assembled one are different objects entirely — in weight, in the fall of the paper, in how they age and open. The hand-made fan has a balance and a sound to its opening that turns it into a keepsake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause each is hand-assembled, no two share the same grain or fall of paper. The one pictured is the one that comes to you, signature variations and all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA craft quietly vanishing\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artisans who still assemble these by hand are not being replaced at the rate they retire. The hand-made fan is slowly becoming the museum-case fan — what is offered now is offered while it is still being made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo own one is to hold a small piece of a tradition that may not outlast another generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSourced where it's made and shipped from Seoul, tracked. The kind of object you only regret passing up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Insadong Craft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46462230822966,"sku":"KG-7391","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/6787\/3078\/files\/2559_shop1_871386.jpg?v=1780197417","url":"https:\/\/catdyy-p0.myshopify.com\/products\/korean-folding-fan-41","provider":"KOHGANE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}