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Hangzhou / Craft & Ateliers

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Wangxingji Fans

Hangzhou · China

Hand-painted folding fans and sandalwood fans

What you’ll find

What Wangxingji Fans is known for

Founded in 1875, Wangxingji built its name on black-paper folding fans coated in persimmon lacquer and on scented sandalwood fans, a range that now covers more than ten thousand designs across nineteen categories. National and provincial intangible-heritage masters still cut, mount and hand-paint the fans at the Hangzhou workshop, which pairs its retail hall with a small fan museum.

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