Swag Lamps

What are swag lamps? Taken in general, the term swag lamp refers to any kind of handing swag lamp - this can be a very basic lamp with any kind of shade around it, or it can be as complicated as a multi-part chandelier. Swag lamps are called swag lamps perhaps because of the chain or rope that they hang on which allows them to swing (or swagger?) in the breeze. For this reason, older vintage swag lamps are often some variety of "hurricane lamp"; that is, they are lamps that came with glass protective elements for the candle that was used to provide the light, so that the flames of the swag lamps would not go out easily. Vintage swag lamps can be quite valuable, as these classic style lamps that were used throughout Victorian England and in the northeast of the United States are considered collector's items by many.

Portable swag lamps are lamps that are held suspended by some kind of short cord, while there are also about as many other styles and varieties of swag lamps as there are of any other kind of lamp (such as a rattan swag lamp, 1970s swag lamps, swag lamps that you can put together yourself today from the swag lamp parts that are contained within swag lamp kits, and so on). At a swag lamp sale you can find things such as replacement glass for swag lamps that may help you to restore older swag lamps to an improved condition.

How to hang a swag lamp - make sure that you install a strong hook or other fixture in the ceiling. In the case of a swag hanging lamp, the pressure on the hook is going to be straight down so you will either want to use some kind of hook that you are capable of screwing tightly into the material of the ceiling, or (more likely) you will want to use the swag lights / lamps where you have wooden crossbeams or some other kind of thick supports (these kind of exposed supports were far more common during the times and places that swag lamps were widely used before). As long as you are able to arrange a sufficiently strong support from which to hang the swag lamp and you make sure that the hook is well fastened, you should not have any problem at all with keeping your swag lamps up in the air.