Pioneers of Advanced Handmade Mediterranean Gourd Lamps

I always underline that Rising Star is a progressive workshop. When I say 'progressive', most of the time, I mention about the designs that you see. But there are other things that most people will not recognize immediately unless they are from the industry or have in-depth knowledge about the materials that we use or what we make. For me, progession has many dimensions to its meaning but we mostly talk about the design side of our craft. February marks another stage in Risin

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.

Instead of sending an email or a message of a digital kind, I wanted to pass our Christmas message with a short blog post. I don't think it has been a smooth and an easy year for many people, not necessarily only in our region but for most of the world. It looks like there is a tension of some kind almost anywhere in the world. For people like us, it is hard to understand these occurrences that surround us in a negative way. I could never understand what's that we can't share

Yes, we can... and we will. It was a crucial decision we took a year and a half ago. Our region and our country weren't going through the best of the times. Problems in Syria and millions of refugees moving to Turkey. We had serious problems with Russia as we took one of their army planes down for accessing our borders. The Russian president Putin wasn't happy at all. And eventually, Russians were banned to visit Turkey for their holidays which created a 7.0 scale earthquake