Manufacture method of water lamp

The manufacture method of that floating lamp comprise the following specific steps:

1. Making skeleton: The simple shape of paper lanterns is cube or cylinder. It is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and the joints are tied tightly with thin lines. If it is difficult to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue. The firmness and elasticity will be lacking, but it is also a good decoration indoors.

2. Put the bamboo in the steam room (or heat it for half an hour), then take it out and put it in the shade to dry, but it should not be excessively dried or irradiated by strong light. Peeling and cutting: scrape off the rough skin. The length required to cut bamboo strips depends on the size of the lantern. Binding skeleton: cross-weave the lamp holders and tie several bamboo rings on the lamp wall in the middle of the lamp holder.

3. Making the lamp body: Buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study store, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and then you can design your own patterns. 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. If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple method for reference.

4. Use a thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then overlap this thin paper with crimson rice paper and dig out the handwriting with a single blade. Remove the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, and red rice paper is pasted inside, which reflects candlelight or light from the hollowed-out place, and the effect is quite beautiful.

5. If the light source is placed indoors, just light an ordinary candle in the lantern; If you want to realize it, you'd better make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries. Maybe it looks a little rough, but light your own lanterns at the Lantern Festival.

6. Paste the diluted paste, brush it evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then paste cotton gauze, gently paste the cut gauze on the lamp holder, brush it with a brush, and finally paste the second layer of lantern glossy paper. If there is no glossy paper, you can also use fine cotton paper. The brush for pasting must be clean, and the pasted paper must be pasted without seams in order to be really pasted.