The fan is a tool for producing a cool breeze in summer, but traditionally it was sometimes used symbolically as a baton to reveal status or as a device to cover the face to reduce cumbersome salutations. Fans can be made with different materials and in different shapes, such as the Taegeukseon (fan with yin-yang pattern) in a circular shape, Jwilbuchae or Jeopseon (foldable fan), and Yoonseon (wheel-shaped fan), which is unfolded into a circle. I mostly use circular fans when making fan patterns. If applied to summer curtains or wallpaper, my fan pattern creates an image that brings to mind a picture in an old magazine.
* Fan
