TRANSFORMING LAMPSHADES
, INGENUITY WORKS WONDERS \ C ‘ So many girls complain of not r being able to buy the lampshades they « 3 would like, for lack of pennies. So ( ’ they sigh at their plain papery ones, , £ not realising how very simple it is 1 1 to transform them into the very * f latest and most becoming of shades. ; Get some water-colour paint (the ■' tube sort is best) of a real rose colour. e Then cover the whole of the inside of • your shade with it. When it is cuite dry, get some moire ribbon of the shade that tones with the room in " which you want your lampshades to o be, and stitch it on all round the edge i 8 (making a binding of it). 1 A girl made the most charming j
shades for her plain white-washed sitting-room out of stiff cream paper. She took a piece of it about nine inches high and sixteen inches long. She painted one side rose, and then rolled it to form a tube, sticking the ends firmly together. Then she bound the edge with jade moire rihbon to match her jade curtains. You could easily do the same. You must buy a frame and measure its circumference, and make the roll of paper just, that length, and as high as you want the shade to be.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 21
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