A ceramic oil lamp
...Regular readers will know that I’m a little obsessed with lamps that burn cooking oil instead of kerosene. I like them so much, I made a little seashell oil lamp the very first project in our book Making It. As a child of the electric age it continuously amazes me that I can make light so easily with cooking oil. Also, in reproducing these lights, I feel a connection to history. I’ve no doubt that my ancestors gathered around fish oil lamps in th...