Artisan Balkan Repurposed Woven Flask Lamp

Artisan Balkan Woven Flask

Material: Glass with metal or plastic wire

Mouth blown or moulded glass with hand woven shell

Area: Balkan Countryside, Europe

Period: 1950’s

Dimensions: Height 45cm X Width 11cm

These products were typical of the Balkans and spreading through to other Eastern European countries in the 60's and 70's, where throughout the most part of the 20th century it was common practice for men working as miners to salvage plastic wrapped wire from detonators and other electric equipment. Women would use this material to weave extremely unique patterns around glass bottles and flasks that were also second hand. This was a cheap way to obtain a container you could carry around and that didn't break as easily as a naked glass vessel.

Repurposed again for use as a lamp Rewired in the matching coloured braided flex including PAT.
 
Bohemian, folk art, piece of art bursting with colour ethnographical in its tale and tradition.