1, material selection
(1) Put the bamboo in the steamer (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 exposed to strong light.
(2) Peeling and cutting: scrape off rough epidermis, and the length required for cutting bamboo strips depends on the size of lanterns. Step 2 tie the skeleton
Cross-weave the lamp caps and tie several bamboo rings on the lamp wall in the middle of the lamp caps.
Step 3 make the lamp body
Buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and 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. 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 words with a single-edged 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.
Step 4 be a light source
If you put it indoors, you just need to 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. It may look a little rough, but it is unique to light lanterns on the Lantern Festival.
5. Paste
Brush the diluted bamboo pulp evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then stick cotton gauze, gently stick the cut gauze on the lamp holder, then brush it flat with a brush, and finally stick two layers of glossy paper for lanterns (fine cotton paper is also acceptable if there is no glossy paper). Note that the brush used for pasting must be clean, and the pasted paper must be pasted without seams in order to be really pasted.
Step 6 dry
Put the lanterns in a cool and ventilated place to dry.
7. painting
(1) Painting or cutting and pasting: painting or cutting and pasting with personal patterns, such as figures, eight immortals, flowers and birds, ladies, etc.
(2) Writing words: After painting, decide whether to write words according to the situation.
When the words and patterns are completely dry, the lantern is finished. In fact, as long as it can transmit light, there is no limit to the materials used to make lanterns. Even fruits, discarded cartons and aluminum cans can be used as materials, and there is unlimited imagination for the change of lanterns.