Holding The Light

Nadia started November 4 session with a short history of lanterns and candle holders. She mentioned the earliest ones - holes in the cave walls filled with animal fat, the Chinese glow worms paper lanterns and later lard, wax, kerosene, oil lanterns and candles. She talked a little bit about today's light holders and their use.
We discovered together that the main difference between candle holder and lantern is that the latter is mostly used outside and therefore designed to protect both the light and the light carrier.

Violeta has prepared three projects. Two of them were candle holders:
1. Wooden disk base, decorated with cones, leaves, seeds and dried flowers.




2. Stick star with the glass holder in the middle, decorated with the same natural materials.





The third project was tin can lantern. We used some ideas from The Crafter's Pattern Sourcebook to create our own pattern and hammer it on the can (everybody brought their own cans with a frozen solid water inside) walls, using different size of nails and chisel.


Our finished projects is such a delightful sight for the eyes: