How do I recover my custom silk lamp shade?
My silk lampshade is torn and rotten. How can I recover the wire frame?
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It is important to replace the inner liner - styrene and then you could just pick a fabric and use spray adhesive to apply to the styrene and trim it out with ribbon folder over or hemming tape.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/safe-materials-lamp-shades-105933.html
and added link for some other HT lampshade projects to give you ideas
https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=lampshade
One way to do would be to wrap the wire frame with wide ribbon like florists use. Most places that sell sewing & craft supplies offer this kind of ribbon such as Michael's & Hobby Lobby, Wal-Mart, & even Amazon. It comes in many colors.
Using a tiny bit of hot glue, you can anchor the ribbon to the wire frame holding it in place so you can wrap it over the frame going inside & outside the top & bottom of the frame. When finished, anchor the end of the ribbon on the inside at the bottom with a tiny bit of hot glue.
Hope this helps.
http://smallthingssimplepleasures.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-recover-lampshade-tutorial.html
Excellent tutorial!!!
You can find excellent videos for recovering an older metal framed lampshade on You Tube.
Here's a link with instructions:
https://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Lampshades
Hi Jeannie: So sorry to hear about your lampshade. Here are instructions on how to redo it: Bing Videos (I hate that Bing doesn't show the link!) or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=4aMbPnnpxtk.
Good luck