NOTE: To ensure safety, use only 25W light globes in each of the lamps featured here.
Materials
Medium-weight cardboard, or you could use a manila folder
Wire lamp frame (available at selected craft and hobby outlets)
Mulberry paper
Plain paper
Pencil
Scissors
Clothes pegs
Craft glue
Blunt knife
Lamp feet stoppers (or you can use beads)
Step 1
Make a template of one of the frame panels by laying the frame onto cardboard and tracing around the outside of the wire. Allow 2cm extra for the overlap at the top, bottom and sides of the panel. Make another template but without the 2cm allowances. Cut out the templates, then cut three paper panels from each template.
Step 2
Secure the larger paper panels onto the lamp, first attaching them to each alternate panel of the frame. Lay the paper over the wire frame, centre it and apply a thin line of glue along the wire uprights. Press the paper firmly onto the glue and fold under the side and bottom allowances to the inside of the lamp, tucking the ends in with a blunt knife. Use clothes pegs to hold the edges in place as the glue dries. Repeat to attach the remaining two larger paper panels.
Step 3
Attach a smaller paper panel to the frame by applying a thin line of the glue over the corresponding paper-covered uprights for that frame. Centre paper panels, then press paper firmly onto the glue. Adjust the tension of the paper panel before the glue dries. Repeat to attach the two remaining smaller panels in this way and allow to dry. Make diagonal cuts in top allowances, then fold to the inside of the lamp and glue them in place to neaten this edge. Allow to dry, and then add the lamp feet to bottom of frame.
Credit: Lampshades designed and made by Ivana Perkins
Related stories
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
