The Worshipful Company of Fan Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The company was incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1709. As fan making is now done by machines rather than by craftsmen, the company is no longer a trade association for fan makers. Instead, the Company functions as a charitable establishment.
The Fan Makers' Company ranks seventy-sixth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Arts and Trade United.
Escutcheon: | Or a fan displayed with a mount of various devices and colours the sticks Gules on a chief per pale Gules and Azure dexter a shaving iron over a bundle of fan sticks tied together Or and sinister a framed saw in pale Gold. |
Crest: | (Upon a helm with a wreath Or and Gules) a dexter hand couped below the wrist Proper holding a fan displayed Gold.[1] |