Handmade antique lanterns

Handmade antique lanterns are made as follows:

The first step is to make the skeleton. Paper lanterns are relatively simple cubes or cylinders. It is best to form a structure with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins and tie them tightly with thin wires. If it is not easy to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue, which will be less flexible, but it is also a good decoration indoors.

Step 2, make the lamp body. Buy some white and red rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study, maybe sprinkle with golden rice paper and cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, then you can design your own paintings. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be displayed on small lanterns. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns.

Use a piece of thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then stack this thin paper with dark red rice paper and dig out the handwriting with a single-edged blade. Take off the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, red rice paper is pasted in it, and candlelight or light is reflected from the hollowing out, which is just right and beautiful.

The third step is to be a light source. Suppose you put it indoors, you just need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; When going out with false wishes, it is best to make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries.