Pair of Antique Japanese Wooden Itomaki Silk Spool Table Lamps

A pair of late 19th Century acacia wood silk spools, or itomaki, handcrafted in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), when silk production in Japan was still a cottage industry. They have been sensitively, and reversibly, repurposed as a pair of small table lamps, with solid brass fittings and a vintage-style cable. The lamps bear the marks of their industrial past, with knocks and bumps that add no small amount of individual character. Both are sear-marked with?– meaning ‘fortune’ or ‘good luck’. Marks to the wooden surface, as you'd expect with industrial objects. Stable, with no wobbles to the joints. *Ships from the UK*.