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Where the material comes from and how a raw block becomes a finished lamp.
Before choosing one, it helps to know what a salt lamp actually is: a hand-carved chunk of mineral salt with a bulb inside, and little more.
Kate Sorensen · 6 min readThe name suggests the mountains themselves, but most Himalayan salt is mined in one specific place: the Khewra Salt Mine in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Kate Sorensen · 7 min readBetween a raw block of mined salt and a finished lamp sits a fair amount of manual work: cutting, drilling, sanding, and fitting each piece by hand.
Kate Sorensen · 6 min read