This exclusive leather painted lamp has been worked by two different people in 2 different states in India, facilitated by Aporv. The design is made using perforations in stretched leather, and then filling in vivid colors. The art of making leather lampshades has its origin in Leather puppetry. This form of art popularly known as Tholu Bommalataa in Telugu is one of the earliest performing arts. Dating back to the 3rd century B.C. and reaching its pinnacle during the Vijayanagar Empire, these puppets are folk in style, conception and execution. The figures are made of goat leather. The advent of other modes of entertainment caused a decline in partronage of this art. Puppeteers have channeled this art into the making of small vases, partition screens and wall decoratives and lampshades.

The beautiful leather craft work done by Thiru, craftsman in Andhra Pradesh, India. Thiru's family of 5 is into this craft and trying to maintain the tradition old craft started by his great grandfather. His grandfather used to go to villages performing leather puppet shows and then his father took it over from him. Is uncle is a National Awardee for this craft form. This particular piece took Thiru 4 days to create. This is done on dead goat leather, which is treat and cleaned with hot water and then dried. After that the particular design is drawn on the leather and then painted using a mix of natural and artificial colors. There after perforations are made on the leather piece, these perforations too are very intricately done as you would see on the product. Some of these perforations give the feel of real hair or leaves on the trees.

Once the leather work was done, to make this more utilitarian product, this piece was worked upon by the artisan from the Self help Group in Karnataka to create a lamp using rexin and natural fiber to give this product the unique look it has.