Paper Lamp for Diwali

Hi All,

It is Diwali time in India, festival of lights. I make a lamp every year to celebrate Diwali and decorate my house.

This design is based on Paper-Lamp-cathedral-Light by EzyCraft, beautiful and attractive lamps from paper

Differences

• I am not using A4 Size paper, So that to modify it to best fit for the sheet size available for me locally
• Optimized Support system
• Super glue not used as I always end up sticking myself

Also I wanted kids to be able to make it under adult supervision

Material

• A1 size cartridge paper
• Cutting Mat
• PVA Glue / Fevicol
• Glue stick
• Steel scale
• Paper cutter
• Scissors
• String lights

The cartridge sheet I got was smaller than A1. So that to come up with different template solution to get 9 sheets out from the sheet available. Details of the templates shown in the images. Template is not to scale, one needs to hand draw it.

• Cut three strips at 171 MM height or width along the long side of the sheet
• On plain A4 sheet, draw and cut based on template
• Using the above as master cut rhombus as shown in pictures

• We have 3 cuts at
  
  • 83 MM : Interlock within same sheet
  • 53 MM : Interlock with the next sheet ( N )
  • 24 MM : Interlock with N + 1
• It makes a design as shown with 9 sheets and then connect the first and last sheet to make a circle
• Place a bottle is between to give shape and support while we work
• Using glue stick, stick the outermost edges

Using a bottle really helped

• Cut 1 strip : 235 mm and stick it to overlap 5 mm as shown
• Cut a 8 circles with diameter 74mm
• Stick all the circle pieces together and cut a small opening to pass "string light plug "
• Glue the stip and circle using PVA glue or fevicol as shown
• Leave it to dry for 1 hr

I used old rice bulb string light with 120 bulbs.

Tie it in a bundle that is smaller and compresses inside the lamp as shown

May have to add a guide circle to center the lights

The string lights are strong enough to bear it's and the paper lamp's weight or Using a string hang from the ceiling

Test the lamp with different color string lights

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