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A standard-sized jam-jar covered with rush in an open weave to create a small lantern jar. For use with solar lights, battery candles or strings of battery lights. CAUTION: Be candle aware if using a real candle.

Schoenoplectus lacustris - common club-rush - grows in slow-moving, fresh water rivers. All my rush Is cut by myself and a team of fellow basketmakers on the River Isle in Somerset, dried in a barn in Devon and stored at my home in Cornwall, ready for weaving into beautiful items.

Depending how freshly cut the material is when woven, rush items can be quite brightly coloured with a range of greens and yellows. As the item ages and is subjected to light, the colour fades to an overall straw colour. Rush can look quite mottled - this can be natural marking, the effect of mud and silt in the river, moulds or bruising as the rush is harvested. This does not affect the quality of the product so long as it is cared for correctly.

With care your lantern jar should last you many years. Try to keep it out of direct sunlight and somewhere dry. Damp will cause moulds to form, although it does no harm if it is gently washed with a soft cloth occasionally or gets wet in the rain - as it might if it is used in the garden. Just be sure you dry it thoroughly away from direct heat - especially turning it over so it can dry thoroughly.

I hope you enjoy your purchase.

Anne