Korean Lantern

instructions the shishi girl

하나 Print the stencil on a sheet of regular

(one) paper and cut it out. Fig. 1
all folded up

둘 Trace your stencil four times onto the

wrong side of the paper that you intend
(two) to use for the lantern.

Cut out the four lantern pieces on the solid

셋 black lines. Facing the blank side, fold each
(three) piece along all the dotted lines (see Fig. 1).

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

Fig. 2 one piece of four

all lined up

Glue the lantern pieces together by their tabs. The tabs can be glued inside or outside,
다섯 it doesn’t matter. When the lantern is lit, the double-thickness of paper where the tabs
(five) 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 don’t have this problem.

hanging lanterns in Korea a lantern made from the tutorial pattern

(photo by Alan Chan, through Wikipedia)
 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