History of Lamps

The first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. A hollow rock, shell or other natural found object was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited. Humans began imitating the natural shapes with manmade pottery, alabaster, and metal lamps. Wicks were later added to control the rate of burning. Around the 7th century BC, the Greeks began making terra cotta lamps to replace handheld torches. The word lamp is derived from the Greek word lampas, meaning torch.

Lamps In Bali

Artist in Bali and other part of Indonesia like to experiment.

They want to try to make remakable products from recycle products or the natural produts that they can find around their area...

The lamps shown in this page for example, it is made of kloping (coconut fruit covers) and they combine with other material from the nature and form into remarkable lamp...

balishoppingtour.com will take you directly to the lamp producers around Bali where you can see the process from Material until the lamp is ready to sell.