Noble fabric lanterns

These beautiful lanterns are not as usual made with cheese box and lantern cuttings but from coated decorative fabric. Equipped with an LED tea light or a string of lights you give a cozy light in your home. Ideal also as high quality party lighting for your summer party!

Preliminary facts about ODIF OdiCoat fabric coating

By coating with ODIF OdiCoat, simple fabrics become dirt- and moisture-repellent special cloths. Odicoat sticks and coats at the same time. For a good result it is recommended to apply 2 layers of the gel. You should wait approx. 20 minutes after applying the first layer before coating the fabric with a second layer. The coating is completely dry after about 24 hours. You can shorten this drying time with a hot air dryer.

When dry, the treated fabric can be wiped with a damp cloth or sponge. Iron-fixed fabrics can be washed at 30 °C. It is important to iron without steam and put parchment paper or baking paper between the fabric and the iron.

Create fabric lanterns

The circumference of the embroidery inner ring is 41cm. So the width of our fabrics is 41cm + left and right 1cm seam allowance. You can freely choose the length of the fabrics. Our fabric lanterns are between 25 and 35cm high. A seam allowance is not necessary for the length.

The fabric blanks are coated with the coating gel from both sides as described above. After the drying time, the crochet bands are placed under the seam allowance and sewn on. You are welcome to use different crochet bands for this according to your personal taste.
Then the fabrics are sewn together along the seam allowance so that there is one cylinder each. We now set the finished cylinders aside briefly to make the lampion ornaments.

For each lantern we need 2 - 3 strands of the warp yarn. To each of these we knot a tassel and string beads as in our decorative example. Together with these decorative strands as ornaments, you can now clamp the sewn cylinders in the embroidery rings. Finally, if desired, install lantern hangers as a suspension.