Post #702804 by tikiskip on Sun, Dec 22, 2013 7:38 AM

Thanks KAHAKA,
I did show kinda how that was done here on TC somewhere long ago.
And I did use a upper ring but think that you could get away without one
and still get a curve.
BUT... you need to have that curve in the rattan/Bamboo before you make hat.
Was going to do a how to on the way I bend rattan but
think that has been put off.

"I didn't have any references making this hat, other than pics I found of old Orchids' lamps"

That's how I do it that and getting lucky and buying lots of lights from the Kahiki and
being able to see how they are made.