Korean Lantern

instructions

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the shishi girl
Print the stencil on a sheet of regular paper and cut it out.

Fig. 1
all folded up

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Trace your stencil four times onto the wrong side of the paper that you intend to use for the lantern. Cut out the four lantern pieces on the solid black lines. Facing the blank side, fold each piece along all the dotted lines (see Fig. 1).

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Line up the pieces left-to-right so that theyre all facing the same way. This is the orientation in which they combine to form Voltron a lantern (see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2
all lined up

one piece of four

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Glue the lantern pieces together by their tabs. The tabs can be glued inside or outside, it doesnt matter. When the lantern is lit, the double-thickness of paper where the tabs overlap will show up anyway. You can eliminate this problem by cutting off the tabs and using clear tape instead of glue to connect the panels. Real Korean lanterns are made with a wire frame and silk or tissue panels, so they dont have this problem.

hanging lanterns in Korea

(photo by Alan Chan, through Wikipedia)

a lantern made from the tutorial pattern

Korean Lantern
stencil (for 8.5 x 11 or A4 paper)
the shishi girl

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Pattern by Quex - free to distribute, please do not sell this pattern - shishigirl.blogspot.com

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from previous sheet

from next sheet to next sheet from next sheet

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