Lab
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Look closer.
Velázquez under a cheap LED, with a glass that shows the same paint under a Mulberry. Move it anywhere.
- The glass tells the truth. — The whole portrait under a cheap LED. Inside the circle, the same paint under a Mulberry, CRI 98.
- Innocent X, relit. — Drag the glass. Outside: a cheap LED, R9 −3. Inside: Mulberry, R9 92. Same canvas, different light.
Same brushstrokes. Four lights.
A detail of Van Eyck's turban under daylight, a perfect halogen, a Mulberry and a cheap LED. Side by side, slowly drifting.
- Four lamps, one turban. — Daylight, halogen, Mulberry, cheap LED. The red survives three of them.
- Spot the cheap one. — The same square inch of a 1433 portrait under four lights. One of them costs you the red.
Two real lamps. One honest one.
Measured spectra of a cheap LED and a Mulberry, run through the CIE color math. Skin, red and leaf under each. CRI 98 keeps them true.
- This is not a filter. — Real lamp spectra, real color science. Watch red go gray under a cheap LED, then come back under a Mulberry.
- What CRI 98 looks like. — The same nine colors under two measured lamps: a cheap LED, and a Mulberry at CRI 98, R9 92.
The light that tells the truth.
CRI scores how truly a light shows these test colors, out of 100. Mulberry 98. Premium LEDs 90. Cheap 75.
- 98 out of 100. — That is CRI: how truly a light shows color. Premium LEDs score about 90, cheap ones 75.
- The red test. — Swatch nine is saturated red, the one LEDs fail. Cheap 0. Premium 50. Mulberry 92.
Make your skin look beautiful.
Like an old masterpiece, your skin has beautiful red tones. Don't let it languish in sickly green light.
Jan van Eyck, 1433 · National Gallery, London
- Two masters. One honest light. — Van Eyck or Velázquez, Mulberry on the left, a cheap LED on the right. Drag the line and watch the skin.
- Your skin is a red painting. — R9 is the red test. The cheap LED scores −43; this lamp scores 92. Slide the line across a master's face.
The red in walnut is real.
Under a cheap LED (R9 −3), walnut goes flat and olive. Under Mulberry (R9 92), its red comes back.
- Cheap light turns walnut to mud. — R9 is the red test. Cheap LEDs score near 0, premium LEDs 50, Mulberry 92.
- What CRI 98 does for wood. — Browns stay deep and red. Under a cheap LED they flatten toward gray.
Built on solid aluminum. Built to last.
Heat is what kills LEDs. Our metal board carries it away. The plastic boards in ordinary lamps let it cook.
- A metal board, not a plastic one. — Ordinary lamps mount their LEDs on plastic, where heat stays put. Ours sit on 1.6 mm aluminum, where it spreads away.
- Cool LEDs live for decades. — Aluminum board. LEDs run at 120 mA of their 150 mA rating. No pulsing. Ten-year warranty.
34 LEDs. Five arms. None strained.
Every white LED is rated for 150 mA. We run it at 120. Gentle current, steady DC, decades of light.
- Run gently, for decades. — 34 LEDs on five spiral arms, each run well below its rating on steady DC. That is how a lamp lasts.
- A galaxy of 34 LEDs. — Warm white, daylight, amber and red on five spiral arms. Each run at 120 mA of a 150 mA rating.
Turn it down. It turns warm.
A real knob; no app, no steps, no flicker. Warm white dims to amber, to red, to off.
- Dim it to embers. — One smooth knob on the cord, 100 to 0. The light goes warm white, amber, red, then dark.
- A real knob. Not an app. — Turn it and the light dims smoothly and warms as it goes, like a candle burning down.
Film it in slow motion.
Point a slow-motion camera at an ordinary LED and the stripes appear. Point it at a Mulberry: only light.
- The stripes you cannot see. — A slow-motion camera catches what your eye misses. An ordinary LED bands and pulses. Ours does not.
- 240 frames a second. Nothing moves. — Slow a Mulberry down as far as you like. The light is the same in every frame.
Light that holds still.
Most LED lamps blink a hundred times a second. You can't see it. Your eyes feel it.
- Two lamps. One wall. — On the left, an ordinary LED lamp. On the right, a Mulberry. Watch the wall.
- The blink you never see. — Ordinary LEDs pulse a hundred times a second. A Mulberry runs on pure, steady current.
- 98CRIColors as true as sunlight. Most LEDs manage 75 to 90.
- 92R9The red test most LEDs fail at zero. Skin, wood and wine look right.
- 0flickerPure DC. No pulsing, no strobe, nothing for your eyes to fight.
- 4colors of lightWarm white, daylight, amber, ember red. One lamp.
- 1cableUSB-C. Powers the lamp, charges your phone, feeds the next lamp.
- 10yearsThe warranty. Solid hardwood and an aluminum board built to outlast it.
- 1workshopHanover, New Hampshire. Cut, finished and wired by hand.
Seven numbers worth knowing. They repeat because they matter.
- By the numbers. — 98 CRI. Zero flicker. Ten years. Four colors of light. One cable.
- Count on it. — The few numbers that make a lamp worth keeping for decades.
Zero flicker. Below the noise floor.
We measured our light with lab instruments. Its flicker was smaller than the instrument's own noise.
- Steadier than the meter. — An ordinary LED ripples a hundred times a second. A Mulberry's line is flat down to the meter's own noise.
- A flat line. On purpose. — This is light over time. Theirs ripples. Ours is so steady the meter can't tell it from silence.
Theirs ripples. Ours draws a flat line.
Recorded side by side, an ordinary LED trembles a hundred times a second. A Mulberry reads 0.0 % flicker.
- A seismograph for light. — Light over time, written slowly. One lamp shivers. The other only shows the instrument's own grain.
- Nothing to record. — The pen under an ordinary LED never rests. Under a Mulberry, it draws one quiet line.
The needle doesn't move.
Point a flicker meter at an ordinary LED and the needle trembles. At a Mulberry, it rests at zero.
- Nothing for the meter to find. — Our light is so steady the needle stays inside the instrument's own noise.
- Zero, and staying there. — An ordinary lamp makes the meter shiver. A Mulberry leaves it at rest.
It dims like a dying fire.
Turn it down and warm white sinks to amber, amber to a single red ember, the ember to nothing.
- Down to one red ember. Then dark. — Most LED lamps cut out while still bright. A Mulberry dims all the way down, then goes truly off.
- The last one percent. — Dim a Mulberry and the light turns warmer as it fades, like a fire, until only an ember is left.
Four lights. One lamp.
Warm white, daylight, amber and red, each on its own circuit. Blend them any way you like.
- One lamp, four kinds of light. — 3000 K warm white for evenings. 6000 K daylight for work. Amber and red for night.
- Not one white. Four lights. — Most lamps give you one color of light. A Mulberry gives you four, and every blend between.
Protect your melatonin.
Every “warm” LED is a blue LED with a coating on it, and some of that blue leaks through and disrupts sleep. Ours has no blue to leak.
- Blue light keeps you awake. So we left it out. — In night mode the lamp makes only amber and red light. The blue end of the rainbow is simply dark.
- Zero blue. Not less. Zero. — Every white LED carries a blue spike. Our night mode has none, so melatonin flows as it should.
Zero flicker.
Most LED lamps flash on and off hundreds of times a second. Not ours.
- Zero PWM. Anywhere. — Ordinary lamps dim by flashing. Mulberry dims the current itself. DC, not pulsed, at every brightness.
- Light that simply stays on. — No pulsing, no strobing, no PWM. Every LED runs on steady DC current, even when dimmed.
One cable. Three lamps. Your phone.
Any USB-C phone charger powers it. A second port on the back feeds the next lamp, or charges your phone.
- Plugs into the charger you already own. — Plain USB-C. Two ports on the back: one in, one out to the next lamp or your phone.
- USB-C in. USB-C out. — One 3 A charger runs three lamps in a row. The last port still charges your phone.
One port in, one port out.
The second USB-C port feeds the next lamp, or charges your phone. Your choice.
- Light the next lamp. Or your phone. — Every lamp has two USB-C ports. Power goes in one and on out the other.
- One cord. Two good uses. — Chain a second lamp from the first, or top up your phone beside the bed.
It charges your phone, too.
Two USB-C ports on the back. One powers the lamp. The other charges whatever you plug in.
- The lamp is also a charger. — Plug your phone into the second USB-C port on the back. Bedside, sorted.
- One cord on the nightstand. — The lamp runs on USB-C and passes power on to your phone through its second port.
Ten years. If it breaks, we fix it.
Every Mulberry lamp carries a 10-year warranty. Built to outlast it.
- Guaranteed for ten winters. — A 10-year warranty on every lamp. If anything fails, we repair it.
- A 10-year warranty. In plain words. — If your lamp breaks in the next ten years, we fix it. That is the whole policy.
Solid walnut
Real wood never repeats.
‘Wood-effect’ plastic prints the same picture over and over. Our solid hardwoods are different in every lamp.
- Solid walnut. Not a picture of walnut. — Plastic lamps print a wood photo on a loop. Ours is the wood itself, cut and oiled.
- Grain you can feel. — Left: real oiled walnut, slowly. Right: the printed plastic most lamps are made of.
Walnut
Maple
MahoganyThree hardwoods. Solid all the way through.
Walnut, maple or mahogany, cut from solid boards and oiled. No veneer, no plywood, no MDF.
- Walnut. Maple. Mahogany. — Solid hardwood, cut and finished with oil. Not a veneer glued to something cheap.
- Choose your wood. — Each lamp is cut from one solid hardwood board. The grain goes all the way through.

