Round Lamp Crafting Kit — a Little Piece of History, Made by Your Hands

With our round lamp crafting kit, you can easily create your own Medieval-style lamp that will light your way on the road or bring warmth to your home with its glow!

All materials are of natural origin and have been carefully processed without the use of chemicals.

You will find the assembly instructions below.

 

Kit Contents

The round lamp crafting kit includes the following components:

• A piece of rawhide
• A lid and a base made of spruce

Important! We offer kits with pre-drilled holes for the rods and the candle holder, as well as kits with intact lids and bases if you prefer to make the holes yourself.

• Rods for connecting the upper and lower parts of the lamp and securing the rawhide
• Toothpicks for fixing the rods
• Waxed thread for sewing the rawhide
• Cord for the handle (sisal/hemp)
• Metal wire for the candle holder

Don’t feel like making the lamp yourself? Ready-made lamps can be found here and here.

We are also pleased to offer a kit for crafting a square lamp.

 

Which Round Lamp Crafting Kit to Choose?

This depends on the desired size of the finished product, as well as your preference for the rawhide.

1. Option 1 — Small lamp

Height: 16 cm

Diameter: 10 cm

Wood: spruce/oak

Rawhide: deer, goat, wild boar, horse

 

    2. Option 2 — Medium lamp

Height: 20 cm

Diameter: 13 cm

Wood: spruce/oak

Rawhide: bull, deer, wild boar, horse

 

    3. Option 3 — Large lamp

Height: 24 cm

Diameter: 15.5 cm

Wood: spruce/oak

Rawhide: bull, wild boar, horse

 

Assembly Instructions

The round lamp crafting kit includes all the necessary materials for creating the lamp. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps:

1. If you did not request pre-drilled holes for the rods and the candle holder, you first need to drill the holes.

• For the rod holes, you will need an 8 mm drill bit.
• For the handle loop holes, also use an 8 mm drill bit.
• For the large hole in the lid for the candle holder, use a hole saw of the required diameter.

Important! The resulting round must be at least 2 cm thick.

     1.2 Optionally: sand the base and lid with 120-grit sandpaper if the wood feels too rough to you.

     1.3 Optionally: sand the edges of the base, lid, and holes with 120-grit sandpaper to soften the edges of the lamp.

     1.4 Optionally: coat the base and lid with hard wax oil to accentuate the wood grain.

     2. Insert the rods into the holes in the base.

• The rods can be inserted flush with the base (so the end does not protrude on the other side), or you can leave the end of the rod visible on the other side. The main thing is not to leave too large a protrusion, otherwise there will be little room for the rawhide, and the base and lid will end up too close together.

     3. Using a 2 mm drill bit, drill a hole through the side of the base and into the rod, about 1.5–2 cm deep (depending on how the rod holes were made).

• Dip a toothpick into wood glue.
• Insert it into the pre-drilled hole and break off the toothpick so that its end does not stick out.
• Allow the construction to dry, then sand it so that the end of the toothpick and the surface of the base are flush.

     4. Sew the ends of the rawhide piece together.

• The rawhide is long enough, so the edges can be sewn overlapping; the stitching method can be absolutely any.

Preparing the Rawhide

• You can sew the rawhide either dry or wet (working with wet rawhide is much easier).

IMPORTANT: Do not sew the rawhide while it is wet and stretched! As it dries, the rawhide shrinks significantly, which can break or bend the rods. If you sew wet rawhide without tension, it will simply shrink around the frame and take on an attractive appearance.

• We recommend first wrapping the rawhide around the frame to estimate the amount of overlap.

2 Stitching Methods

1st method

Wrap the rawhide around the frame, estimate the amount of overlap, mark and pierce holes for sewing the edges together, and sew using the supplied waxed thread. Then place the finished sewn cylinder onto the frame.

2nd method

Wrap the rawhide around the frame and then sew the edges of the rawhide directly on the lamp.

     5. Afterwards, secure the lid onto the rods in the same way as the base (if the rawhide is wet, it is important to do this quickly).

     6. Attach the handle.

     7. Make the candle holder: bend the metal wire using pliers to match the diameter of the intended tea lights. The shape of the candle holder can be absolutely any.

Important! We advise using large tea lights, as tall candles increase the risk of the lamp catching fire, while small tea lights give off too little light.

• Optionally: as a finishing treatment, you can coat the outside of the rawhide with oil (e.g., rapeseed or linseed oil). This will make it more translucent and change the quality of the light.

Your rawhide lamp is ready!