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Pattern of a fabric lampshade. How to make a lampshade with your own hands from fabric

So, having figured out how to do it correctly, let’s take on its main lighting and at the same time decorative elements: lampshade and shade. Reflectors are technologically simpler; their manufacture and fastening to the supporting structure of the chandelier does not cause any difficulties.

About attaching lampshades

The Internet is full of pictures with really very beautiful homemade lamps. However, looking at them, ask yourself: how do you replace a light bulb? The answer is not always found in the primary sources. Methods for fastening lighting elements in lamps, allowing lamp replacement without the use of tools, will be discussed in, but the technological methods described later in this are designed for the fact that the lampshade in this case either moves up, or is removed down, or you can simply climb into it with your hand.

Materials

In order of increasing complexity (and durability), lampshades and lampshades can be made with your own hands at home from paper, plastic, thread, ready-made tubes of various kinds, twine or yarn, framed with a fabric cover, and stained glass. The last 2 are quite complex, but with a skillful approach to work, the lighting and decorative qualities can surpass expensive store-bought ones.

Paper

Making a paper lampshade is the easiest way: from materials other than paper, you will need threads and PVA glue, and from tools - a sewing needle, scissors and, possibly, a sharp mounting knife. However, paper lampshades are fragile and therefore suitable mainly for chandeliers. But a damaged paper lampshade can be easily replaced with a new one.

You can make a paper lamp somewhat stronger in various ways. The simplest way is to make a lampshade-ball from paper strips, gluing them at the poles and among themselves, pos. 1 in Fig. However, the design in this case is uniform: sufficient strength of the product is ensured only and only by its spherical shape.

Another way is to strengthen the paper itself. It will require a little additional material: enameled copper winding wire with a diameter of 0.25-0.4 mm or thread. In the first case, the lampshade will fit without additional reinforcement for a floor lamp, and in the second, for overhead decorative elements you will need a solid supporting base, for example. from a plastic bottle. The lampshade paper is strengthened with wire as follows:

On a sheet with a density of 90-140 g/m2. see the contours of the parts are drawn.
Using a finely sharpened pencil or a mechanical one with a 0.6 mm rod, draw the lines of the rigidity grid. If the lampshade is glued together from several whole or slightly cut sheets, the grid lines should form a seamless pattern.
Apply a thin layer of PVA glue with a brush.
When the glue dries to the touch, apply veins - stiffeners - made of wire along the mesh.
Lubricate the same PVA sheet with a density of 35-60 g/sq. cm, place it on the first one and gently smooth it with your fingers.
A day later, the parts are cut out with scissors, glued together and painted. In this way you can even imitate the wings of rare species of butterflies, poses. 2; in this case, the Swallowtail Maak.

When using threads, both sheets are taken with a density of up to 60 g/m2. cm. Then, as said, you will need a supporting base, but you can even imitate the texture of rose petals, pos. 3.

Note: a paper lampshade, durable “almost like a real one,” can be made from papier-mâché. The technology, which is quite labor-intensive, is described below, see about lampshades for the kitchen.

Plastics

It’s easy to make a lampshade for a chandelier from disposable plastic cups fastened with a stapler, see fig. Its lighting qualities are very good, but its appearance is frankly utilitarian. Therefore, it makes sense to use such lampshades in rooms with fairly high requirements for the quality of lighting, but not in front rooms. The directional pattern (DP) of a lampshade made from cups is formed by a cardioid pattern.

Lampshade made from plastic glasses

A fan pattern with a wide opening, very soft light in the central spot and uniform illumination in the side zone allows you to achieve a lamp with a lampshade-cone (or pineapple?) from bitten plastic spoons on a base in the form of a PET bottle with a cut off bottom, see fig. Effective light softening is achieved by the spoons acting as translucent bowl-shaped reflectors. They are glued to the bottle and glued together with silicone glue, mounting or a glue gun. Cyanoacrylate glue is also suitable, but it must be thick. Cheap “superglue” is very fluid, drips will spread everywhere and spoil the glossy surfaces of spoons.

You can also make good lampshades from bottles alone. For example, a sphere from their bottoms, fastened with a stapler, like stopper cups (see the figure for a mini-master class), will give a cardioid pattern; however, compared to the “established” one, it is noticeably distorted. But at the dacha or in utility rooms, a chandelier made from bottoms is quite useful.

Lampshade made from bottle bottoms

Romantic soft light, somewhat spotty, but within acceptable limits, will be provided by a globe lamp made of bottle “hedgehogs”; however, they look more like blooming sea anemones - sea anemones, see photo on the right. It’s not difficult to make the “hedgehogs” themselves: the bottoms of the bottles are cut off, the side walls are cut to the scar before narrowing into the neck, the strips are wrapped around the neck, glued with drops of glue and secured with thread or tape for reliability. However, to assemble the “hedgehogs” into a lampshade, you will need a transparent spherical base. It is made in the same way as a lampshade made from threads (see below), only the threads are white nylon or propylene no thicker than 20 gauge, and instead of PVA, colorless water-based acrylic varnish is used.

A lampshade made from leaves cut from bottles allows you to achieve very uniform illumination and is very decorative, see fig. It is assembled on a temporary spherical mandrel, see below.

The step-by-step master class in this case is also simple, but requires patience, accuracy, some additional tools and, possibly, material:

We are preparing a soldering iron with a nickel-plated bronze tip (for dry soldering) at 40 W or with a regular copper tip at 25 W;
If the tip is copper, you will also need Teflon (fluoroplastic) tape 0.06 mm wide, 60-80 mm wide;
Cut out leaves from the bottle. From a lighting engineering point of view, pale green or light brown are better;
Using a soldering iron tip (copper - through the film) slightly melt the edges of the leaves, otherwise they will look unnatural;
Using the tip of the sting (copper also through the film) we “draw” the veins;
Using the flat of the sting between the veins, with light touches, we slightly melt the surface so that it is, like real leaves, not completely smooth;
Again, using the tip of the sting, going deeper, but without piercing, we bring out the central vein. It is convenient to do this on a soft, heat-resistant backing (calico or felt in several layers will do);
We place a thread in the central vein and fuse it by “screwing” the side roll onto the hollow;
If required, we form complex leaves by tying together threads of leaves;
Having laid out the leaves on the film (now any film), using a pipette we impregnate the threads with acrylic varnish. Once it dries, the foliage is ready for assembly.

Threads

The procedure for making New Year's decorations and lamps from threads has been described many times in RuNet. For example, video:

Video: DIY twine/thread lampshade

Here we can only note that, firstly, you will need at least 100 m of thread for a medium-sized lampshade. Secondly, there is no point in using inflatable balls as mandrels: after 10-20 turns, under the pressure of the stretched threads, the ball protrudes where it is not necessary, and the end result is something inconceivable. Thirdly, there is also no need to soak the threads in flour paste in advance: the product will turn out fragile and not moisture-resistant.

As a mandrel when making a lampshade from threads, it is best to use a tightly inflated chamber from a sports ball or a durable silicone beach ball, inflated from a pump through a nipple. The mandrel is lubricated several times with petroleum jelly (lanolin), carefully rubbing it with your hands. It won't harm the ball in any way; on the contrary, it will prolong his life.

Next, the thread is wound onto the mandrel, continuously pulled through a simple device, see fig. This mini-impregnation bath, so that it does not accidentally crawl, tip over or spill glue on something, is secured on the table with tape; convenient double-sided. The glass is first pierced with a needle and thread, then PVA or acrylic varnish is poured and shaken, tightening as necessary. Usually the thread goes through the bath itself, because glue until it dries is a good lubricant.

When winding, do not forget to leave a window for entering the cable and cartridge - the strength of the cut thread ball drops sharply! A day later, after its completion, the air is released from the mandrel and pulled out through the same window. “Vase-green”, it sticks to the threads very rarely and weakly: you can tear it off by slightly pulling or pressing it with your finger, but the product remains intact.

Note: Instead of threads, you can use jute, sisal or propylene twine, but there is a better use for it in a lampshade, see below.

And where is all this going?

Ball lamps, see fig., are suitable for children's rooms, because... form an even soft light. The one on the left is made from paper cupcake wrappers - on a yarn ball base. Threads – propylene or thin colorless nylon; binder – acrylic varnish. White in the spool, after impregnation with varnish, such threads become almost transparent. The lampshade-ball made from cups (on the right) is not so interesting, because... The dishes are all the same, but it is also more difficult to tear it apart.

A hemispherical lampshade made from the same cups would be more suitable for the hallway, see fig. on right. With a low lamp power (more precisely, its luminous flux) it will give a bright spot below and acceptable illumination of the rest of the room, so you can use low-heating incandescent lamps of 15-30 W. The fact is that the resource of energy-saving lamps and LED lamps decreases sharply when switched on/off frequently. And a low-power incandescent lamp, especially in the hallway where the light is not constantly on, will not significantly increase electricity costs.

A special case is the kitchen. The lighting requirements for it are set out in the previous article. But the lampshade in the kitchen quickly gets dirty, and the soot eats away firmly. Let us remember: bright light promotes condensation and bituminization of vapors of organic compounds. This is the deposition of soot; the lampshade is illuminated most brightly.

The simplest solution is a disposable paper lampshade. “Bump”, as in pos. 1 pic. below will give just the right type of lighting in the kitchen, but you will have to redo it quite often. It is better to mold a papier-mâché lampshade on a suitable frame, pos. 2. After varnishing with acrylic varnish, it can be carefully washed with a cloth and dishwashing detergent, and painted with a blacksmith’s patina, it will look like a hand-forged item and certainly not like some old newspaper.

But the lampshade for pos. 3 – juice straws glued to the bottle – an example of a bad solution. Such a lampshade will provide ideal light for the kitchen (the straws also work partly as light guides), but it will get dirty quickly, you can’t clean it properly, and the product is labor-intensive. Plastic reflectors for kitchen lamps for local lighting are best made from reusable plastic dishes, pos. 4, it is quite durable, inexpensive and easy to clean. Cups with handles and saucers, of course, are a matter of design decision, but bowls without a pattern are what you need.

How to make papier-mâché?

Papier-mâché is a useful material for many purposes, so let us recall the technology of its preparation and use:

Old newspapers, or, better yet, the cheapest unglued writing paper are torn into shreds about the size of a thumbnail. You will need a lot of paper!
Fill a suitable container with scraps to the top; say, a liter glass jar.
Dilute 1/3-1/5 PVA by volume in boiling water.
While the solution has not cooled, pour it into the paper pulp.
Stir until the paper completely dissolves into fibers.
Once the papier-mâché has cooled, pour it into a consumable container or use it immediately. Paper paste can be stored for up to 6 months. in the refrigerator in a tightly sealed container.
Prepare the next portion in the same way.
If the paper paste goes into use right away, you can add the next one to the stuck area of the mandrel while the previous one is still wet and crumpled with your fingers. If you apply it dry, the product, when dry, may fall apart into “cakes”.
The workpiece is ready for varnishing, painting, etc. after a week of drying at a temperature not lower than 22 degrees. The air temperature around the workpiece must be the same on all sides! Drying on a radiator, convector, in direct sunlight or an infrared emitter is prohibited!

Tubes

Lampshades and shades from sections of tubes are most often made for bedside lamps and lamps in the bedroom: due to their round cross-section, there is always a significant refraction of light, which can be very intimate and romantic, but in most cases is undesirable for constant and working lighting. Lampshades made of translucent tubes also provide a rather dappled light, see figure; if you use pieces of thin transparent PVC hose, the play of light will turn out very beautiful, but you don’t need to look at it for a long time, much less read or sew in such light.

Paper and other fibrous materials refract light little, but tubes made from them are not strong in themselves. For example, it is better to make a lampshade made of newspaper tubes on a frame, see below: precisely because they wrinkle easily, thin paper tubes are an excellent material for weaving. As for the lighting properties, paper, especially clean paper, has excellent ones.

Lampshade on frame

Now let's move on to lampshades that are suitable anywhere, incl. and for a table lamp that can be pushed to the floor with an elbow. In addition, we will set the condition that the lampshade covering can be washed, cleaned, and changed at will. Therefore, we do not touch glass or solid hard plastic lampshades; Besides, you can’t make them at home yourself. That is, we will work on lampshades on a frame with soft lining.

About fabrics for lampshades

It is preferable to sew the decorative light cover of the lampshade from fabric with fleecy threads, i.e. natural. Due to diffraction on smooth synthetic threads, the light penetrating through such a lampshade may be hard. Choosing fabric for a lampshade by eye is not difficult: through the sample, turning it smoothly, look at some compact bright light source; preferably LED, because it gives the most coherent, i.e. ordered, light. The selection criterion is simple: the less moire fringes are observed from different viewing angles, the better the fabric.

About restoring the lampshade

The lampshade frame is quite labor-intensive and technologically complex, so first you need to look around the household to see if there is a lampshade from an old lamp lying around somewhere. Straightening it, repairing it and updating the lampshade with a new cover will be easier than making the frame from scratch.

The discovered “basket” may turn out to be of a very elaborate shape, and to create patterns (see below) you will need to accurately measure its diameters in several places. In this case, a homemade caliper made from 3 wooden slats and a pair of drawing squares will help out. Of course, it will not give the accuracy of a factory rod, but achievable (+/–1 mm) is enough for cutting and sewing work. And an idea of the capabilities of such a tool is given in Fig.

The measurement procedure is a 2-step procedure: marks are made with a pencil on the sponges where they touch the object, and then the size is taken between the marks with a tape measure. In order for the movable sponge to glide more smoothly, and, accordingly, the measurement to be more accurate, you need to place a fluoroplastic film under the rubber bands holding it. To measure small diameters, the jaws are turned over with the squares facing out.

Constructing a pattern

Now we remove the necessary diameters: the lower and upper hoops (D1 and D11 in position 1 in the figure), the largest and smallest on the belts (D2, D6, D10), in places of kinks, i.e. where the curvature of the generatrix changes sign (D4, D8) and at kinks (D5). We take the others more or less evenly between the mandatory ones.

The diameters of the pattern of 6 wedges will, taking into account the tightening of the fabric, be equal to half the measured diameters (item 2). If there are supposed to be more or fewer wedges of the finished sleeve, proportionally change the proportion of the diameter in the corresponding diameter of the pattern. But it’s too early to cut and sew.

There at pos. 2 it can be seen that the seaming allowance is not geometrically completely similar to the template. In knot I (kink inward) this is not so bad: you can sew on a drawstring sleeve and tighten the seam with a cord. If the decor of the lampshade involves ruffles, frills, scallops, etc., then perhaps this is how it should be: small folds will fall into place, and the cord will not be visible at a break in the contour.

However, on the shelf of the contour (node II), whatever one may say, it is in no way possible to give an allowance so that the seam does not “run away”. In higher geometry it is proven why, but we don’t need to go into this jungle: we will simply cut the paper template according to “capricious” diameters at the kinks and shelves (item 3).

Sewing a cover

Now, how to sew a lampshade using our patterns? First, individual parts of the sleeve are sewn; in this case, bottom, middle and top. Then the widest adjacent part (here the middle) is sewn to the widest belt (bottom). Next, the 2 parts that are next in width are sewn together in the same way, etc. The point is that the shortest transverse seam (we have Seam 2) is sewn last. In this sample, after sewing the bottom to the middle, the top is sewn to them. The sewing of the cover is completed by trimming off the excess allowances, except for the lower and upper hems. The edges must be trimmed.

Frame covering

The next stage is placing the cover on the frame. This is where the machine can be put in the closet: the work is entirely manual. Step by step covering the lampshade frame with a cover is done as follows:

The cover is turned inside out (it is probably clear that it was sewn from the inside out) and put on the frame;
Wrap it inside and stitch the top flap;
Pull and trim the fabric to the first bend (here D8). If there was no hoop in the original sample, it must be installed in advance, see below;
Baste the fabric to the edges of the frame from top to bottom, alternately, and to the hoop at the bend;
Repeat paragraphs. 3 and 4 to the next bend (now D5), and so on to the bottom hoop;
Wrap and stitch the bottom flap.

Frame

How the simplest frame of a table lamp or floor lamp is constructed can be seen in pos. 1 pic. The pendant for the chandelier is different in that the ring will be at the top, the extensions from it will go to the upper hoop, and then additional holes are needed in the ring for attaching the pendant.

The ring is cut out of well-soldered and fairly durable sheet metal (bronze, brass, galvanized steel 0.4-2 mm thick) or durable plastic from 1 mm. A computer disk is suitable; for the E10 cartridge, you will only need to drill holes in it for braces and fasteners. The main dimensions of the ring for the E27 cartridge with fastening with union shaped nuts (item 3) are given in item. 2. But making a ring for fastening in the gap between the body and the clamp of the cartridge with a skirt (item 4) is unacceptable! Such cartridges are attached only with a threaded fitting in the lid!

How the stretchers are attached to the ring is shown in pos. 5: their blanks are not bent completely with a hook, inserted into the mounting holes and carefully pressed with pliers. Then, if the ring is metal, solder it (see below). If it is plastic, fix it with drops of superglue or silicone.

Soldered assembly

Frame parts are made of plastic steel wire with a diameter of 1.5-2 mm or bicycle spokes. The latter are much stronger, do not rust and do not require painting, but they need to be bent carefully and they are less soldered. To solder the frame you will need:

A soldering iron of at least 65 W (preferably 100-150 W).
6% solution of orthophosphoric acid. Sold for soldering in radio stores and construction stores. Orthophosphoric acid is also available as food additive E338 in the form of needle-shaped, colorless, hygroscopic crystals.
Flux paste (gel for soldering), always with borax.
Thin, 0.15-0.35 mm, bare copper wire. You can take strands from an electrical wire.
Solder POS-30 or POS-40. They are refractory (that’s why you need a powerful soldering iron), but much stronger than POS-61 and other low-melting ones.

Note: phosphoric acid of medium strength does not emit highly toxic and/or caustic fumes. But all the same, when working with it you need to take precautions - wear safety glasses and gloves (household latex ones will do).

The key procedures for assembling a soldered frame are shown in Fig.

The brazed steel frame is assembled in stages as follows:

The ends of the linear blanks are kept in acid for 3-4 minutes (item 1), and then rinsed in water (item 2). You need at least 1 liter of water, and it must be changed after 4-5 washes.
If the soldering is in the middle or the part is bent, soak a clean white rag in acid and wrap it around the soldering area. Hold for about half a minute, then rinse the rag in acid, wrap it around the soldering area again, and so on until the total time of exposure of the acid to the metal reaches the same 3-4 minutes. After acid treatment, the part is then washed under running water for 1-2 minutes.
Without touching the treated areas with your bare fingers, the frame is completely assembled without soldering: the soldering areas are butted tightly, but not tightly, i.e. with gaps between turns of 1.5-2 mm, wrapped with copper wire, pos. 3 and 4, and apply 2-3 drops of flux paste to each joint. The soldering areas at the cross parts of the parts are wrapped with 2-3 turns of copper wire crosswise and fluxed with 1-2 drops.
Semi-dry, i.e. without a hanging drop of solder, use a soldering iron tip to heat the soldering areas until the flux spreads over all the cracks, pos. 5. There is no need to heat the flux until the flux boils and vapor appears. Also, the final result will be better if you heat the flux with a separate soldering iron with a dry bronze nickel-plated tip.
Take a drop of solder, apply it to the soldering area (item 6) and heat until it flows everywhere, like flux before. The excess solder hanging below is carefully removed with a soldering iron tip. It is impossible to apply unmelted solder in the form of a flexible wire, and refractory solders are produced mainly in rods.

Fabric or twine?

Propylene packaging twine and paper tubes have good lighting properties. If the lampshade is made from woven twine or newspaper tubes, it will give an even, soft light, and complex cutting and sewing work will be eliminated. But the frame for a wicker lampshade must, firstly, have at least 10-12 ribs evenly spaced around the circumference.

Note: if the frame is of a simple shape, then only 3-4 ribs can be load-bearing (steel). Let the rest be made of straw; they are glued to the upper and lower hoops.

Secondly, to create rims at the top and bottom, respectively. The trains are either made double in height, with an interval of 2-3 cm, or strips of thin metal or hard plastic of the same width are attached to them. Headbands are needed for decorative reasons: a solid one is wrapped with twine or a tube, and if the headband is double, the weave can be made in a figure eight. The entire side surface is woven like a basket.

Stained glass lampshade

Stained glass lampshades generate light flux mainly by refraction, so they are more suitable for the living room.

stained glass lampshades and lampshades

Stained glass fragments are made from rhinestones, faceted or cabochons. The stained glass lampshade is assembled on a heat-resistant frame (for example, a steel bucket). But compared to stained glass for a window or door, since the connections of the elements are not solid, but point-based, there are significant differences:

Only strong, refractory solder is used, the same as for the frame of the lampshade, as well as flux with borax.
Before soldering, the framing of rhinestones is made only from special copper foil - folia - 3-15 mm wide, depending on the width of the crystal rim.
The protective film is removed from the foil immediately before applying it to the crystal; You cannot touch the outer (soldered) surface of the foil with bare hands!
Also, you can’t put off soldering foil-wrapped rhinestones until tomorrow: the copper will have time to oxidize, and the joints will turn out to be fragile.
Upon completion of soldering and thorough washing of flux residues (with a rag with alcohol; then with distilled water), the soldering is copper-plated by applying a thick blue solution of copper sulfate with a brush.
The remaining vitriol is washed off under running water. You cannot rub with a brush or even cotton wool, because... The copper film on the solder is very thin.

A small surprise - about New Year's chandeliers and lampshades

New Year is coming, it's time to do it. And - a New Year's chandelier. A chandelier? Yes. Remember how the festive mood drops if the overhead light is turned on in the room with the Christmas tree. No matter what, New Year’s lighting should correspond to the spirit of the holiday. Let's put off lighting technology until serious days; nothing from the festive light will happen to us in a few evenings. It’s time for business, but it’s also time for fun.

Typically, a New Year's chandelier is a Christmas wreath attached to the chandelier in the living room with light bulbs woven into it. But even an experienced electrician would not need to do electrical installation work at heights in the pre-holiday rush. And what if the Christmas tree is in the nursery, where the chandelier is made of paper? Then you can at least buy inexpensive plastic blanks for Christmas tree balls, a garland with colorless light bulbs, stuff them into the balls, and hang such a heap (on the left in the figure) where it is more convenient.

If the design of an “everyday” chandelier is suitable, you can screw candle lamps into it and decorate it with the same balls or, for example, painted pine cones, on the right there. Or you can try a little and make a New Year's jasmine chandelier with your own hands, as in the video below. New Year is New Year, no matter what you say.

Video: DIY jasmine lampshade on the ceiling

If a person loves creative experiments and wants to spend the day off profitably, you can make a new beautiful lampshade.

This craft will decorate your home. And only at first glance it seems that making lampshades for table lamps with your own hands is too expensive. There are ready-made, proven diagrams with dimensions. All you need is some wire, fabric and thread (or fabric glue). This is easy to do, and simple materials at hand are suitable for the craft. An interior element such as a lampshade will add a new motif to the familiar interior of a room or will be a wonderful gift for acquaintances and friends.

How to make a lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands?

What's a living room without a beautiful lampshade? Masters of handmade art have a lot of tips in their arsenal on how to create a wonderful lampshade for an old lamp dating back to your grandmother’s youth. The most practical option is to make a round lampshade frame for a table lamp from wire. Stretch the fabric over the wire and secure it.

There are ready-made, proven diagrams with dimensions. By following the instructions, a beginner will avoid many mistakes. Let's give an example of the most common classic lampshade frame design. We also make a pattern for the fabric according to these dimensions, but with an allowance.

The best fabric for a lampshade is felt or cotton. Felt allows you to make multi-layered unusual crafts. And on plain cotton, before attaching the fabric to the frame, you can apply a design using an iron. To secure the fabric correctly and evenly, it is convenient to use transparent textile glue. You can easily find it in a decoupage store. The end result is an excellent lamp.

How is the drawing applied? There is no special trick to this either. You need to find special paper for thermal photo transfer. A suitable design is printed on it, and then you need to take a heated iron and iron every millimeter of paper well. You don't need to do anything else. When the pattern has cooled, the fabric is securely attached to the frame. Just don’t forget to leave a small gap when cutting out the fabric scraps so that the edges (top and bottom) can be folded and carefully glued from the inside out. Or use regular colored tape for these purposes.

Frame options

Lampshades for table lamps made by yourself are, in any case, nicer than factory-bought ones. Anything that the author's imagination allows is possible. But for a round shape, the easiest way is to choose a pattern that is glued to the fabric.

If you don’t want to bother with drawings, just take regular plain chintz fabric and make patterns suitable for the shape of the wire frame. The main elements of crafts are imagination and the ability to work with your hands. Therefore, you can make the wire frame of a lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands.

Unusual lamps for a new interior

When a new room has been renovated, and you want to complement the image of the living room with some exclusive detail, you can put one lamp with an unusual design on a small coffee table. Or on the dressing table in the bedroom. This will be an excellent solution. After all, even when decor costs are minimal, creative taste is always appreciated.

You can find unusual ideas for a lamp, and, in particular, a new lampshade, at exhibitions of handicrafts, or simply by using your maximum imagination. Rice paper lampshades of various shapes are now popular. Many people love colored things and decorate the frame with decorative colored beads.

The main thing in creative experiments is to choose the right shade of small decorative elements. When the style, color scheme and shape are chosen correctly, even the simplest things will look elegant in your room.

Stylish cardboard lampshade

You can make a lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands from cardboard. He will be completely different from the others. The material for the craft needs to be durable, but thin. The benefit of this option is that it is an incredibly easy way to create a lampshade from scratch.

The sequence of actions is as follows:

4 identical frames are cut out of cardboard. The same frames in which photographs are placed.
A piece of fabric is glued to the back of each frame.
Carefully make a few holes on the side with a gypsy needle and sew the frames together with laces. You need to make a small flashlight. The cardboard is pre-glued. It is stitched to make the craft look more beautiful.

The advantage of this option is that it is a completely simple way to create a lampshade from scratch. In addition, this “flashlight” is a very light object. And it is possible to repaint it in any color, but preferably to match the selected fabric. It looks unusual and suits the style for elegant interiors.

Lampshades for table lamps, made by hand for the nursery

An interesting lamp in a nursery will come in very handy. Make a better lampshade for your child together. Trust his personal taste. After all, for a child, the most important thing is the process, not the result. You can use denser materials that do not transmit light well, for example, plastic covered with paper. With a lampshade made of plastic, the lamp dimly illuminates the room and acts as a night light.

Maybe the child will want to see his favorite cartoon character on such a night light. Using the cotton print idea this can be done.

Lampshade for a cozy bedroom

But for a woman’s bedroom, a lampshade with a knitted pattern is more suitable. Some stores sell simple knitted napkins as decorations for tables or shelves. These wipes are great. If a woman knows how to crochet, she can make such a napkin herself.

When you need to give the napkins the shape of a ball, you need to put a few of them on a children's ball, cover them completely with glue and let them dry a little. Remove unnecessary parts in advance. Then the fabric is removed and hung on the prepared circle of wire lampshade.

A self-knitted napkin already has the required size in advance; it does not need to be adjusted to the dimensions of the frame. The napkin is sewn to the edge of the frame using regular threads. Making a DIY crochet lampshade for a table lamp is as easy as shelling pears.

A ball of thread as a lampshade

A very popular method is a glued ball made of thin threads. All you need is a skein of thread, PVA glue and a balloon. You can also use thick threads.

What to do?

The balloon is inflated and smeared with glue.
Using fresh glue on the ball, wind the threads layer by layer in any order.
There is space left at the bottom so that you can screw in the light bulb later.
When you get a ball, apply another layer of PVA on top of the thread chaos.
This ball is left to dry for 12 hours.

After this, the balloon is pierced with a needle and pulled out. The lampshade is now ready to be installed on the lamp. DIY lampshades for table lamps made using this technique do not have to be round. Instead of a ball, it is convenient to take a plastic 5-liter bottle or other square-shaped object and apply the same “pattern”. You will get a wonderful lampshade if you take an inverted plastic flower pot instead of a mold.

New life for an old lampshade

What to do when you have lamps with lampshades, but the old glass shade is broken? How to repair a table lamp shade with your own hands? Sometimes you don’t want to say goodbye to your old favorite things, even though they grow old and fade with time. What can be done to ensure that they continue to serve? They can be refined and restored to a beautiful, stylish look. But how to update the lampshade of a table lamp with your own hands?

Of course, the old frame needs to be repainted and repaired if it is cracked somewhere. Now many types of glue for the restoration of such things are sold.

Then think about what base you will choose for your craft. If you are new to handmade crafts, ask for advice from those who are more familiar with the details of this hobby. But still, the best basis for a lampshade will be classic fabric.

Any interior decor starts with the little things. So, by changing a few details, you can create a completely different interior. Try changing a lamp or lampshade on it, and you will see how the entire interior design changes. Depending on the chosen room, the lampshade can be classic, made of fabric and lace, modern, made of plastic, buttons or paper, abstract, made of feathers or other improvised means.

With some effort, you can get a truly unique item, the likes of which you will not find anywhere else. It is known that designer designer items created by hand are not cheap, since their production takes a lot of time, but the result is something unique and inimitable.

To make a lampshade yourself with your own hands, you will need cheap materials at hand:

plastic spoons, forks and glasses;
wooden ice cream sticks;
fabric scraps;
ribbons and lace;
buttons;
tubes from magazines;
beads and seed beads;
cardboard and paper;
shells and pebbles;
clothespins;
plastic straws for drinks;
threads and twine;
metal wire for the frame.

Typically, a lampshade consists of two metal rings connected by jumpers (from 3 pieces). The shape of the frame can be trapezoidal, cylindrical or curly.

For the frame, wire made of any metal is suitable: copper, aluminum, steel. Using wire cutters, you need to cut two pieces of wire and make two circles out of them - one larger, the other smaller.

It should be noted that the design for the lampshade of a pendant chandelier is slightly different from the design of the lampshade of a table lamp, but in any case there is always another inner ring through which either the socket or the cord from the chandelier is threaded.

To work with wire, you will need wire cutters and round nose pliers (in order to make a neat loop to hold the wire together.

But, nevertheless, the most correct thing would be to buy a ready-made frame for the lampshade - fortunately, construction hypermarkets are full of them.

You can make a pattern for a lampshade like this:

So, the frame for the future lamp is ready and the most important thing to choose is the decor of the lamp and the material with which to work. We offer several options for making a lampshade with your own hands.

Lampshade made from scraps of fabric

To make such a lampshade you will need the following materials and tools:

two pieces of fabric of different colors;
lampshade frame (purchased or made yourself);
threads with a needle;
scissors.

And more options for inspiration: fabric lampshades:

Ribbons and lace, buttons and beads, pieces of other fabric and bows are suitable for decoration. Even old pants or other clothes can give life to a designer item.

Most often, such lampshades are sewn according to a template: for this, a pattern is cut out of paper or newspaper, and then transferred to fabric:

The lower and upper parts of the product can be decorated by gluing or trimming them with fabric of a different color or with lace or braid.

Paper lampshade - options and ideas

No less interesting can be a lampshade made of paper or cardboard.

Suitable for work:

pages of glossy magazines;
old newspapers;
old unnecessary book;
notebook (can be covered with writing);
paper napkins with patterns.

Remember: paper is flammable, so you will have to use either energy-saving or LED light bulbs - they heat up less than incandescent lamps.

To make a simple paper lampshade you will need the following materials:

base - a lampshade-ball made of paper of any diameter;
square-shaped note paper;
scissors and glue.

First, cut out circles from note paper (can be replaced with regular colored paper).

Decorative elements need to be glued from below, row by row, until the entire surface of the lampshade is covered.

Instead of regular colored paper, you can use corrugated or velvet paper, or you can replace them with lace fabric - in this case, the lamp will look lighter and airier.

More options for lampshades made of paper or cardboard, photo:

In order to change the look of the room, just a little is enough: change the pillows or blanket on the sofa, throw in a bright rug or make a lamp with your own hands.

Decorating interior items can be interesting and addictive! Vases, napkins, panels, lampshades - it’s these little things that change the face of the interior!

To avoid buying a designer lamp, make your own lampshade from plates. For this you will need:

the base for the lamp is a cylinder made of paper or cardboard;
several sets of disposable paper plates;
glue gun;
scissors.

Procedure: fold each plate in half and glue it to the base along the fold line:

A similar lampshade can be used for a sconce, a pendant lamp, and a floor lamp. If desired, you can use different colored plates or paint white ones in different shades.(42)

Similar things became popular several years ago. Light and weightless balls of thread, depending on the diameter, can become either a Christmas tree decoration, a decorative item, or a lampshade. Threads can be used in any color, or you can dye them when the craft is ready. You can also decorate the top with ribbons and lace, beads or buttons - this will make the craft look more elegant.

How to make a lampshade from threads? For work you need materials and tools:

a balloon (or an inflatable ball that can be deflated);
a skein of thread (the thicker the thread, the more reliable the lampshade will be);
PVA glue;

Depending on how often you wind the threads, you can get either a completely airy and light lamp, or a denser lampshade.

Attention! Before winding the threads, the ball must be lubricated with Vaseline - this will allow it to be easily separated from the dried lampshade.

Operating procedure:

First, you need to inflate the ball - whatever the diameter of the ball, the lamp will be the same. Mark the hole at the bottom that will need to be left open.
Wind the threads around the ball in any order. Between layers, as well as on top, coat the entire ball with PVA glue and let the glue dry for about 4-5 hours.
Now the ball can be burst and pulled out. All that remains is to thread the lamp socket and hang the lamp.

Using threads and glue, you can make a lamp in a different way: instead of a ball, use a plastic bottle, and use denser threads. The bottle must first be covered with tape to make the dried lampshade easier to remove. The shape of the lamp will also be different:

More thread lampshades, photo ideas:

Using some simple techniques and a few packs of disposable spoons or forks? you can create an excellent original lamp that will decorate your interior. Such lampshades can be used in almost any room - in the kitchen, in the hallway, on the balcony, and even in the bedroom.

To make such a lamp you will need the following materials and tools:

several sets of disposable spoons (table spoons or tea spoons - it all depends on the desired size of the product);
plastic 5-liter cylinder;
scissors;
glue gun or universal assembly glue for plastic products.

Operating procedure:

Cut off the lower part (bottom) of the cylinder and degrease the surface.
Carefully break off (or cut off) the ends of plastic spoons.
Using a glue gun, glue the spoons to the balloon in rows, starting from the bottom.
Then make a headband and glue it on top.
Pass the cord with the socket through the hole on top and screw in the light bulb.

If desired, the spoons can be painted in any color. This way you can make a lampshade for a floor lamp, wall or pendant lamp.

In addition to spoons, you can also use disposable forks or knives for the lampshade - the lamp will be a little different, lighter and more elegant:

Or from plastic cups:

Original do-it-yourself lampshades, photo

If you wish, have good imagination and skillful hands, you can make a lamp from other available materials - wood, cocktail straws, clothespins, burlap, packaging cardboard, even plastic bottle caps.

We have selected original ideas for hand-made lampshades; we hope our ideas will help you choose what suits your interior. So, photos of lamps and lampshades made and decorated with your own hands:

Their range is very wide and varies in purpose, size, shape. According to the type of material used for manufacturing, the following lampshades are distinguished:

How to sew a lampshade for a floor lamp

All you need to create a lampshade is an idea, material and patience. First, let's look at how to make a fabric lampshade. First of all, choose what material you want to sew from. Silk, linen, taffeta, cotton are suitable. Don't forget about the color of the material. It should be combined with the furnishings of the room (furniture upholstery, curtains, carpets). Although this is not important.

So, you have chosen the fabric and decided on the color scheme. Buy a new lampshade and prepare clothespins, a tape measure, chalk, pattern paper, a pencil, and scissors for work. Now take measurements for the pattern. Measure the top and bottom circumferences of the lampshade and the sides. Add a few centimeters to the seams and hems. Connect the lines. Cut it out.

Lay out the pattern on the fabric and trace with chalk. Cut carefully. Apply a small amount of glue with a gun to the fabric and then to the lampshade. Now cover the frame with fabric and carefully straighten it with your fingers. All is ready!

Today, lampshades for floor lamps, made by yourself, are valued no less than factory ones. Guests of your home will notice and appreciate such a piece of your decor. But you don't have to buy a new lampshade. If you have an old one, you can simply restore it. To learn how to update a floor lamp shade, read the following tutorial. You will understand how a lighting fixture can be transformed using ordinary materials and accessories.

How to update an old lighting fixture

You will need:

Pencil;

Fabric (of your choice);

Scissors;

Floor lamp with lampshade;

Satin tape;

Large sheet (newspaper);

Several pieces of pins;

Spray glue (or regular fabric glue).

First, disconnect the wire. Remove the old lampshade from the floor lamp. Leave only the base. Lay the frame on its side on a large sheet. Outline the top and bottom edges with a simple pencil, rolling along the paper. Connect both lines. Cut out the pattern, do not forget to add one centimeter on each side.

Spray the back of the fabric with spray glue (you can use fabric glue diluted with water, apply it with a brush). Then place the base on the fabric and roll slowly, pressing and smoothing towards the edges. Trim off excess fabric.

Now finish the top and bottom edges. Cover them with ribbon, fringe or braid. When the glue has dried, insert the lampshade into the floor lamp and turn on the light. You can decorate the product with buttons, appliqués and anything else your imagination desires.

If you have unnecessary wool at home, use it to update your lampshade. Cut a rectangle out of it (depending on the size of the frame). Cover the frame with it, securing it with pins. Fold the edges under the rim of the lampshade. Secure with a heat gun.

How to crochet

This lamp will update your interior and become a great night light in your bedroom. You will need:

Lampshade frame;

Two skeins of wool (can be of different colors);

Hook No. 3;

Scissors.

The diameter of the lampshade is 26 centimeters. Cast on a chain of 52 loops. Then connect it into a ring. Continue knitting according to the pattern in rows:

First: cast on double crochets (dc).

Second: CH, five air loops (VP).

Third: four CH, one VP.

Fourth: two single crochets (SC), six VP.

Fifth: three CH, eight VP.

From the sixth to the eleventh: three SB, ten VP.

In the twelfth to thirteenth: four CH, five VP.

Fourteenth: five each CH, VP and CH.

Knit the entire last row with SB. Close all loops. The knitted lampshade for the floor lamp is ready. It can be improved, transformed and supplemented with various accessories. Show your creativity.

How to make a lampshade for a floor lamp from napkins

To make it, you need to stock up on openwork napkins, glue and a base. If you don't have a frame, you can make it yourself. Inflate the balloon to the desired size. If everything you need is prepared, then let's get started. Soak the napkins well with PVA glue and immediately cover the ball. Leave a small space where the light bulb will be inserted. When the workpiece is dry, pierce the ball with a needle and remove the remains. The result is such an original decorative element.

This floor lamp will fit perfectly into the rooms.

If you don’t have extra openwork napkins, then read the master class below on how to knit them.

How to knit a napkin

You will need a #1 crochet hook and acrylic yarn. The napkin should be round in shape. So, dial twelve VPs. Connect into a ring. Tie it with single crochets. In the second row, cast on three loops for lifting and knit the air loops to the end. Next, make three VP, four dc above the columns of the previous row. Repeat until the end of the chain.

The next row for beginners will be difficult, be careful (alternate the indicated loops in all rows). We knit five VP and eight CH. In the next row, cast on nine VPs and 10 DCs. Next, knit a row of eleven VPs and four DCs. Proceed to finish knitting the napkin. Knit five VP, fifteen dc in the VP of the previous row. When finished, wet and stretch. Leave it to dry like this. You can starch the napkins to help them keep their shape better.

Lampshades for a floor lamp can be knitted, crocheted, sewn from fabric or woven using the macrame technique. Creating a new accessory is a great way to freshen up your home interior.

Good luck in job!

Making a lampshade for a floor lamp, table lamp or chandelier is a fun and useful activity. Firstly, a familiar lamp with a homemade lampshade will attract the attention of others and promote a good mood. Secondly, doing handicrafts will help you discover your abilities and push you to new ideas. A handmade lampshade can also be an excellent gift.

10 original ideas

Depending on the style, a lampshade can become either a bright decoration of the room or a harmonious addition to it. We invite you to consider 10 creative ideas that can radically change the appearance of a lamp, giving it modernity and uniqueness. Three glass bottles are sawn crosswise, the edges are polished and used as lampshades. From the outside they are wrapped with copper wire without insulation along a free path. A pendant lamp of this shape is a stylish solution for youth bars and pizzerias.
Those who like to read at night will be pleased to use a table lamp, the base of which is firmly held by several books, and the lampshade is covered with postcards of a certain theme. The next option involves completely replacing the existing table lamp shade. With your own hands you make a lot of white roses from fabric and glue and hide the entire surface of the cylinder under them.
Flowers made from twisted multi-colored fabric and knitting threads serve as decorative elements. The size of the composition and its shape are completely subject to the imagination of the master. Decorating a lampshade with paper flowers will help you get a dose of good mood. The composition is perceived as spring-like, and even children can make it. Lace knitted napkins have found another application. Knitting masters will appreciate this innovation. A translucent lampshade made from napkins perfectly diffuses bright light.
A light, spherical lace lampshade is made by gluing napkins onto the surface of a balloon, which, after drying, is pierced and carefully removed through the hole for the lamp.
A non-standard use for buttons to make another stylish lampshade. The implementation of such an idea requires patience, although even a schoolchild can do it. If you use colored buttons, you can create different patterns. Decorating a lampshade with memorable photographs fits perfectly into any interior style. In addition, such a craft will be an excellent replacement for a photo album. You can decorate not only the cap, but also the base of the lamp. The easiest way to do this is with sea shells and glue. In addition, such a table lamp will become more stable.

Homemade lampshade for a floor lamp

In order to make a lampshade with your own hands, you will need several hours of free time and materials available to everyone:

a bottle made of transparent plastic with a volume of 3-5 liters with a wide neck and cap;
several sets of disposable plastic spoons;
hot melt adhesive;
lamp socket.

For a five liter bottle you will need approximately 170 spoons, for a three liter bottle - about 120 spoons.

This you need to know:

The size and shape of the bottle affects the geometry of the future lamp;
The neck diameter should be sufficient to fit an E14 type cartridge;
The shade of the scattered light depends on the color of the plastic.

Assembly sequence

First of all, we draw an outline and carefully cut off the bottom of the bottle, thereby setting the length of the lampshade. Using scissors or nippers, we divide the spoons into two parts: the handles are for waste, the oval petals are for use. Next we proceed in the following order:

heat up the hot glue gun;
apply glue to the first petal at four points and glue it to the bottle, starting from the neck;
We place the petals of the first row in a circle end to end;
Use the petals of subsequent rows to cover the free space so as to completely hide the plastic base.

After completing the process of gluing the bottle, we move on to the electrical part. We cut a hole in the lid 1 mm larger than the outer diameter of the cartridge. We connect the power cable to the terminals, assemble and fix the cartridge with the plug.

In order to improve the aesthetic properties of the finished product, it is better to choose a cartridge, electrical wire and a white cover.

The lampshade for the floor lamp is ready. All that remains is to screw in the lamp, preferably an LED one, and apply the supply voltage. In this design, it can be used as an independent table or pendant lamp without additional support.

Simple lampshade for table lamp

We propose to consider the assembly of two completely different models of lampshades for a table lamp. It is noteworthy that both options do not require large investments of funds. In the first case, this is the creation of a stylish steel-colored table lamp, and in the second, the modernization of a classic table lamp.

First option

The key component of the lampshade is the uncorking element attached to the lid of an aluminum soda can.
Having accumulated as many of these “openers” as possible, you can get down to business. The base for the table lamp is a small metal frame. The main requirement for it is the presence of two rings of wire at the top and bottom, to which the parts from the cans will be attached.

At the first and most difficult stage, you need to separate a sufficient number of parts from the covers, loosening and breaking them off. You will have to work hard, because for a lampshade with a diameter of 15 cm you will need more than 300 of them. Further actions are performed in the following sequence:

the parts of the first row are bent in half, pressing them against the upper hoop and leveling them with pliers;
in the remaining parts, one of the rings is cut with wire cutters and a slot is left for connection with two rings of the first row;
row by row, the elements of the future chain mail are combined together, slightly squeezing with pliers.

The design is completed by connecting to the lower hoop. Its circumference is covered with parts bent in half, similar to the upper hoop. Then the lower rings of elements from the penultimate row are cut and linked with the elements of the last row. As a result, the lampshade takes on a cylindrical shape, reminiscent of chain mail.

When you turn on a lamp with a lamp of neutral white light, the shine from the lampshade will intensify, emphasizing its sophistication and originality.

Second option

How to make a lampshade with your own hands from a table lamp that has lost its attractiveness? All you need is a little fabric and imagination.

In accordance with personal taste preferences, you need to select the fabric and cover the frame of the future lampshade with it. Thick denim is a suitable option for a night lamp, and thin fabric in beige shades will only slightly darken the light from the lamp.

When the most difficult stage is over, they move on to making jewelry. In this matter, the interior of the room in which the table lamp will be located plays an important role.

A classic decoration is roses cut from fabric. The beginning of the strip is the center of the flower; it is fixed to the canvas using hot glue. Then the strip is twisted and wound around the center, gluing at certain intervals. In this way, you can create entire compositions.

How can you update and decorate your lamp differently? To do this, you can cover the entire surface of the canvas with homemade roses, using several color shades. This lampshade will create a more subdued light. It is worth noting that there are many other ornamental materials that allow you to independently and inexpensively make flowers and figurines of more complex shapes.

Remember, a DIY lampshade for a floor lamp can cause a fire if used incorrectly. Do not install incandescent or halogen lamps in it, as during their operation the temperature of the bulb and base may exceed 100 °C.

We strongly recommend using high-quality LED lamps in lamps and floor lamps with homemade lampshades. They will never overheat the lamp and its components, which means they will not spoil the appearance of the homemade product.

When creating and implementing any compositions with your own hands, the ability to fantasize and use available materials in a timely manner is of paramount importance. The ideas presented above are only a small part.