LED craft lamps are great when you need the very best craft lighting. These mimic daylight to show colors more true. They’re even great for photography.
Their LED lights are great for sewing, knitting, crochet, artwork, model making and more. Most are designed with flexible necks to be ultra-positionable. The result is as close as you can get to having daylight whenever and wherever you need it.
Top Picks
If you’re in a hurry, check these out. Otherwise scroll down for more details.
- Best Overall: Verilux SmartLight Full Spectrum LED Modern Floor Lamp
- Best Floor Lamp: Kenley Natural Daylight Floor Lamp
- Best Desk Lamp:OttLite LED Soft Touch Desk Lamp
- Budget Choice: LED Desk Lamp with Clock and Wireless Charger
What to Look for in Craft Lamps:
Very few of these lamps get many complaints – that’s why I’m including them. Picking the right one or ones for your space is mostly about figuring out what you want.
- Do you want it to stand on a floor or desk or table? The answer will usually be which one you have more room on. If floor space is scarce, putting it on a desk or table top will leave the floor space open. If you have a very busy table or desk, however, you might rather have it stand on the floor.
- Also consider where the light is going to shine from. If the lamp is on the floor, it has to be at the edge of a table and can’t be moved easily toward the middle.
- Do you want extra features like a USB phone charging station or desk organizer stand?
Notes
Bulbs are not replaceable
One thing I don’t love about these lamps is that you can’t just replace the bulb like you do with a regular lamp. The LEDs are designed to last for years and years if you left a lamp on constantly, so you get your money’s worth. But when the bulb goes, the whole lamp becomes a paperweight destined for the landfill.
There is a reason for this however. These bulbs are integrated LEDs that have a circuit board, and that’s why they can do what they do and potentially last a decade or more (I’ve had some of mine about 8 years).
Touch switches
Most of these lamps have a touch switch. You can’t feel a button, so if you’re fumbling for the lamp switch in the dark, you just have to keep touching the base until you tap it and the light comes on.
I use one of these as a bedside table lamp. While I do have to fumble for the touch switch, I prefer it to a switch that’s difficult to push, which I’ve had on other bedside lamps.
Best Craft Lights
This is a floor lamp with a flexible gooseneck for adjustments. Unlike other lamps in this list, it has options for changing the color temperature as well we brightness level.
What's Good:- Product Dimensions: 8"D x 10.51"W x 64.02"H
- Highly customizable: choose between 5 light intensity levels and 3 color temperature settings, from warm white to daylight.
- Color temp settings, according to the manufacturer: 5,000K to simulate bright white daylight contributes to visual clarity for artists, crafting and hobbyists, 4,000K setting for cool blue light for reading and concentration and 3,000K for warm, ambient light for relaxatio
- Great for dorms and home offices as well as crafting area
- Flexible gooseneck can be easily moved in virtually any direction
- Touch switch is on the pole where it's easy to reach from a chair
- Trusted brand: Verilux has been around for decades
- Touch switch might make it not ideal for a bedroom where you're hunting in the dark for the lamp switch
I own 3 of these and use them as bedside table lamps, photography lamps, and lamps for doing crafts and art work. The light is strong and looks like natural daylight.
What's Good:
- Product Dimensions: 6.25"D x 8"W x 12"H
- Color temperature: 5000 Kelvin
- 3 brightness levels. The switch is touch-sensitive
- Great for dorms and home offices as well as crafting areas
- Very portable. I've been known to unplug mine and take them around the house to whever I'm doing a craft or photography project
- The diffuser screen over the bulbs makes it a nice soft glow that can fill a room
- Rubber neck can be easily moved in virtually any direction and extend the height from 8 to 18”.
- Energy Efficient: LED bulb will last up to 40,000 hours
- Natural daylight gives amazing clarity while reducing eye strain
- OTT is an established brand of crafting lights
What's Not So Good:
- The base takes up some room on a surface. Fine on most desks, but can be a bit large for some nightstands or end tables.
People love the light from this lamp. Being a floor lamp, it will free up desk space compared to a desk lamp.
What's Good:
- Product Dimensions: 10.6"D x 10.6"W x 53.1"H
- 27W full spectrum white natural daylight
- Color temperature: 6400K, very true to daylight
- See colors more truly for art or crafting projects
- Adjustable flexible gooseneck
- Traditional push switch instead of a touch button. If you're fumbling in the dark, you'll know when you've found the switch.
What's Not So Good:
- The power switch it all the way up at the top by the bulb, which might not be convenient
This one may be the budget choice, but it's packed with features.
What's Good:- Product Dimensions: 2.3"D x 5.5"W x 13.3"H
- Anti-glare shade
- 3 lighting modes - Warm / Natural / Cold White
- 5 adjustable brightness level
- Has both a USB charging port and a 10W wireless charger. You can charge two devices at the same time
- LCD screen shows the time, date and temperature, and even acts as an alarm clock, too. included alarm, calendar, time and temperature! You can turn off the screen for room darkening by pressing the On/Off button for 3 seconds. The alarm is both sound and the screen lighting up at the time you selected.
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Folding neck design with 180 degree flexible arm and 90 degree base axis
- Great for bedrooms (unless having to find the touch sensitive buttons in the dark bothers you)
- Very portable. I've been known to unplug mine and take them around the house to whever I'm doing a craft or photography project
- No gooseneck adjustments