Hội An, Việt Nam
Every lantern is a painting you switch on.
Silk stretched over bamboo, painted by hand over several days. No stencil, no print, no second copy. The light does the rest.
Six things our painters keep painting
Dragons and old stories, flowers, faces, colour for its own sake, animals, and sets that hang together. Every piece inside them is a one-off.
Made in Vietnam, one brush at a time.
Lotus Lanterns started with a question: what would a Hội An lantern look like if it were treated as a painting rather than a souvenir? It took months to settle the fabric, the shape and the frame before a single one was sold.
Every lantern is drawn straight onto stretched silk, no stencils, no transfers. A single piece takes several days, which is why the colours, the linework and the small imperfections are never quite repeated.
They hang in homes, cafés, restaurants, hotels and collectors' rooms. Lit, they throw painted light across a wall. Unlit, they still read as art.
- 1 of 1
- No two are ever alike
- By hand
- Brush on silk, never printed
- Hội An
- Made where the craft began
Opening soon
First off the bench
Finished pieces, painted and waiting for the shop to open. Each one is the only one.
Where they end up
Weddings, cafés, shipping boxes and commissions. The same six painters behind all of it.
Weddings & eventsLanterns made for one night
Couples send us their colours, their flowers, sometimes their initials. We paint a set that matches the room, and they take it home afterwards instead of throwing it away.
ProcessWhat happens before the paint
Bamboo split and bent, silk stretched and sized, the drawing laid out in pencil. Most of the work happens before a colour goes down, and it is why the linework holds when the lantern is lit.
ShippingHow a lantern travels
Every lantern collapses. It ships flat in a fitted box, arrives the size of a large book, and opens in a few seconds. We have sent them to more than thirty countries this way.
MotifsThe flowers we keep coming back to
Lotus, peony, wildflower. They are the shapes that survive being wrapped around a curve and lit from behind, which is a stricter test than it sounds.
The first dropPieces ready to hang
A standing collection, finished and waiting on the shop to open. Each one is still a one-off. They are finished pieces, not stock repeated from a pattern.
CommissionsSomeone else’s idea, painted
A café logo. A grandmother’s handwriting. A view from a window in Hanoi. We sketch it first, agree it with you, and only then start painting.
What people say once it's hanging
I bought it for the painting and kept it for the light. At night it throws the dragon across the whole ceiling.Interior designer, London
We asked for our café logo worked into the flowers. It came back better than the sketch, and guests ask about it every week.Café owner, Melbourne
It arrived flat in a box the size of a book and took about ten seconds to open. I had expected to be nervous about shipping.Event planner, Singapore
Commissions
Bring us a picture in your head.
A monogram, a family crest, a café's logo, a flower that only grows where you grew up. If it can be drawn, our painters can put it on silk.
We take commissions for single pieces and for whole rooms: restaurants, hotels, weddings and resorts. Tell us where it will hang and we'll tell you what it will cost.
How a commission works
Three steps, roughly four to six weeks from first email to delivery.
- 1 Send us the idea, the space and the timing.
- 2 We sketch it, price it and agree the design with you.
- 3 Our painters make it, and we ship it flat to your door.
Be first when the shop opens
One email the day the collection goes on sale, then new pieces, commissions we're proud of, and the occasional look inside the workshop. A few times a year, not a few a week.