My process
The contents of each bottle I use for my lamps has been enjoyed and passed onto me to be recycled into unique items for your home, and every one has a special tale to tell…
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Take a look through the short synopsis of each lamp on my homepage - some have only made a short journey to me in Wiltshire and some have travelled all across the world. I hope you enjoy discovering these distilleries, many of which are small family concerns, some have a history going back a hundred years, and some have sprung up by enterprising entrepreneurs as the enjoyment of gin has taken hold in recent years.​​​
The bottle first needs a 10mm hole drilled to create an entry point for the wire to be fed through. Occasionally a “side-entry” construction is used, which does not require a hole drilling in the bottle – this is sometimes requested by customers who have a very special bottle and prefer to keep it intact.
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The lamps are wired up with an inline switch and PAT-tested by a qualified electrician.
Shades are individually made. Each one reflects either the design on the bottle, or the story behind the location or distillery (or both!). Some are made from individually-sourced fabric and some have been created using freestyle machine embroidery - the pictures below show these different process in action.​
Whichever one you choose, the shade will be backed onto a liner which has been designed and engineered for lampshade manufacturing and tested by the Lighting Association for heat and fire resistance. The liner may be white, metallic or double-sided (with fabric on both sides) but all my lampshades have the same quality liner so you can rest assured that all the necessary safety checks have been carried out.​