Pioneers of Advanced Handmade Mediterranean Gourd Lamps

A cold friday night in the Eastern Mediterranean resort of Alanya might be boring unless you make your own way.

January is a great month for Rising Star Workshop. There is no rush, no hurry to make lamps and ship them and plenty of time to sit back and think... and work comfortably. January is a month which I review.. almost everything. I judge the performance of my lamps by looking at two parameters. The feedback I receive and sales figures. Each design is precious to the crafter and sometimes my own intuition doesn't help me see areas of improvement and opportunities to get better. T

More than a lamp with a lot of purples, A Phenomenal Purple is a bizarre object, a collector's item and unique piece of handcraft.

It was a wonderful, sunny Sunday in Alanya yesterday. So me and my wife decided visit some green and took our gourds with us believing that they would be happy to visit their hometown too. We had a great time together and here is the summary of the day we had together. I am going to keep this blogpost to visuals rather than the words. Have a look at the tooltips to have a better understanding of the story behind the photos. #custommadegourdlamps #gourdlamp #gourddesign #handm

I have a habit of reviewing our collection every January. Go through each gourd lamp design one by one. See how they did the previous year, should I keep them in the collection, should I make revisions or simply re-make and capture them once again. I added a good few new designs to Rising Star Gourd Lamp Collection already. I also decided to remove some of the designs, maybe not permanently but until I re-visit them. For the time being, they have been removed from my Rising S

As far as I am concerned, tulips are the only flowers that create one single tulip from a single bulb. Unlike the rest of the flowers which

I receive a lot of inquiries regarding custom made gourd lamps or designs which can be personalized. Some of these inquiries turn into orders and some remain inquiries. No matter what happens in the end, we can come up with a gourd lamp with a design of your choice... no problem. To make it easier for yourselves, we started a template design scheme this year. I picked up some of the most popular and attractive designs from 2016 and 2017 and introduced explanations to help you

So.. for Rising Star, it is not only about developing new gourd lamp designs but also it is about learning and using technology.