Lampshades - How to Make Them
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Lampshades - How to Make Them - Olive Earle
LAMPSHADES:
HOW TO MAKE THEM
I
PLANNING THE LAMPSHADE
LAMPSHADE making should be considered as an art as well as a craft, and perhaps the first thought to be kept in mind when planning a shade, is the decorative point of view. No matter how beautifully a shade may be made, no matter what care may be taken with the intricacies of measurements and linings, the labor is wasted if the resulting effect in the room, is not pleasing.
As a general rule, lighting fixtures and shades are accessories to a room rather than a main feature. In fact, there is nothing much worse in interior decoration than lights which insist on making themselves apparent the moment one enters the room. Therefore, when the old lampshade is to be discarded it is well to consider whether the shape of the present frame is exactly right or whether a new one should be chosen. Look at it critically and decide whether it is large enough for the base, or perhaps a little top-heavy; again it may be that it takes up more than its fair share of space on the table or in the corner where it stands. Many a small room has taken on the dimensions of a doll’s-house drawing-room owing to the vastness of the lampshade, and who does not know the bother of having to move a large floor lamp to some place where it will be a little less in the way. Inversely, the dignity of a large room may be seriously impaired by the choice of an insignificant fixture and shade.
Having decided perhaps, that the old frame will not do this time, try to visualize the size and shape that would be most satisfying and would relate itself most harmoniously to the furniture and decoration of the room.
SIZE AND SHAPE
The next important consideration is the colour effect; the words colour effect
are used deliberately, as colour
alone would not be enough. In choosing a pillow perhaps, it is enough to feel that such and such a hue will make a nice spot of color in such and such a place and that is the beginning and end of the matter; but with a lampshade, the effect of the light on the color as well as the colour as a note in itself, by daylight, has to be studied very seriously. Then too, the effect of the filtered light on the other furnishings is a matter that cannot be dismissed as unimportant, if beautiful illumination is the result desired and not just a room with the light turned on.
For instance, if the general scheme of colour for the room is dull blue, nothing could be more desolate than a plain dull blue lampshade. It might look very charming by day, in fact some super-poetic friend might liken it to a symphony of twilight
or something equally impossible, but beware of taking that friend there in the evening. She would probably think that she was in the family vault or the ice-box, so cold and cheerless would be the result of the switched-on light. Now picture the same room, with those same quiet restful blue rugs and hangings, with the introduction of a rich old-rose tone or a gay cherry red, perhaps in a pillow or two and most certainly in the lampshade. It would be satisfactory to look at by day and with a light behind it would throw the whole room into a glow that would make every one around feel that they looked their best, and the corners would be filled with mellow purple shadows.
COLOUR EFFECT
If a blue lampshade seems imperative in the color scheme, as sometimes seems the case in a room where lavender is the predominating tone, the hue of the lighted-up blue can be warmed by the use of a red bulb or gas mantle globe. These can be bought, or if they are not available at the local store they can be colored at home with oil paint. The paint should be diluted with turpentine and the mixture used very thin, or the transparency of the glass will be impaired. On the whole, however, it really is wisest to keep away from blue for the whole shade; that is to say, used by itself it is very apt to be dangerous, owing to the amount of light that it absorbs and the cold effect of the filtered rays. Used in combination with other colours, it is, at times, quite delightful; it is particularly attractive when used as a trimming or when lined with a heavy undertone of red or some such warm colour. The various effects of one colour used over another or even of some four or five different tones used together to produce one colour will be discussed later, under the heading Chiffon shades.
THE USE OF COLOURED BULBS
The point to be insisted on, is to see the room as a whole, not just a lampshade, with the thought in mind that the effect must be satisfactory by night as well as by day. Therefore choose the colour with exceeding care.
For the blue room, the before-mentioned rose and cherry colour are good and the effect of a golden yellow shade