Handmade paper lampshade.

These pictures are posted as an example of what you can do with 'junk', imagination and a bit of patience. Also, for friends in Brighton, who were not quite sure if I was joking when I said, 'no really, don't take that manky old lampshade frame to the tip. It's just what I've been looking for!'
It used to be a typical slanting cylinder shape - but I was so keen to start re-shaping it I forgot to take a proper 'before' photo. I bent the wire into petal shapes - you can see where the bending snapped one of the joints so I had to mend it with glue and wire.

Then I cut up bits of handmade paper and sewed a running stitch along the bottom, pulling the cotton taut so that the paper gathered into 3D shapes like petals and sewed the 'petals' onto the frame.

Here is a picture of the finished article, firstly with the bulb unlit.

Now a picture of the lamp when it's lit. Paper lampshades like this are now a safe option thanks to low heat, low energy light bulbs, but it's still important to keep the shade away from the side of the bulb.