The Japanese are famous for their ability to create beautiful and practical things out of paper. It would seem that fire and paper are incompatible. However, such a lamp serves no worse than glass, the light from it is soft and diffused, creating coziness and warmth in the house.
It is necessary
- - 1.5 m thin bamboo;
- - 2 m thick bamboo;
- - a square wooden plate (2 cm thick and approximately 35x35 cm);
- - rice paper;
- - glue "Moment";
- - decorative rope-straw.
Instructions
Step 1
Take a bamboo stick and cut into 4 identical pieces, about thirty centimeters each (five centimeters for gluing and twenty centimeters for the lantern frame). Cut four more sticks two times thicker than the previous 4, about 40 centimeters long.
Step 2
Make 4 holes in a wooden plate exactly the size of the bases of forty centimeter sticks at a distance of 30 centimeters from each other. The sticks should fit very tightly into the plate. Make a hole in the center of the plate for the bulb and socket.
Step 3
Assemble the top of the frame. Take two thirty centimeter sticks, put one on top of the other crosswise at a distance of 5 centimeters from the edge. Fasten them with glue, and then wrap them with decorative straw.
Step 4
Make a few turns before crossing and several - after on each stick, and then - at the point of crossing along and across, in order to additionally pull the sticks together. You should get a triangle.
Step 5
Fasten two more sticks of thirty centimeters in the same way. Gently glue the two triangles together with the free ends of the sticks to make a square. Wrap the joints with decorative straw tightly and thickly enough so that it serves not only as a decoration, but also as an additional fastener.
Step 6
Apply a little glue inward to the edges of the holes in the wooden plate, insert the long forty centimeter sticks into the greased holes, pull them down so that there is about 5 centimeters of the free end from the bottom.
Step 7
Wrap each stick with decorative straw under a wooden plate tightly enough to form a plump splint on which the plate seems to rest, tie, secure the straw. Wrap the sticks over the plate in the same way.
Step 8
Insert the chuck into the center hole. Secure the square top frame at the long ends with glue and decorative straw. Tighten the lantern on four sides with rice paper, glue it to bamboo sticks.
