The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-06
Gbs Yuustbulo
Novelties in Lamp Shades.

In many houses lamp shades play
such decorative and important part
that some suggt stioDs for making them
follow quite naturally. One that is
only expensive in labor is made of yell
low cotton crape-the kind which has
the extremely large crinkle. After the
frame is covered with the material
slightly gathered, q deep ruffle simply
hemmed is put on the edge to fall be-
low, and the space above is covered
with three narrower frills. A long
doubled strip is then boX-plC ated
through the middle and put on the top
of the shade, the upper edge standing
up two inches like a collar. A shade
of pale green India silk is gathered
scantily, and bordered with single
bias rufile of the same pinked on the
edge. A sort of overskirt of firm, thin,
transparent grenadine or mousseline de
sole of the same shade is put over the
silk, covering it entirely except be-
tween the deep points into which the
thin material is cut on the edge where
it overlies the silk ruflle. The grena-
dine is ornamented with snowy long
stitched embroidery of stemless daisies,
which are scattered over it at random.
The work is done with white fiOss-silk,
and the points of the edge are run with
three rows of silk, which, s there is no
friction, forms sufficient edge to pre-
vent raveling of the grenadine. AS
trophy recalling the camping. out of last
summer, an artist friend of the writer
shows shade for table lamp which
is made of six panels of mica, all over
which are poised natural butterflies of
all sizes and varieties. A curiously-
elaborate shade from England, intended
for a tall lamp, is made of old-rose
India silk, closely shocked, with pearl
bead on every one of the stitches that
draw the fullness into honeycomb pat
tern. AT the upper and lower part of
the shade the luness is left to folm
ruffles with raveled edge; over the lower
one is gathered fall of white silk
blonde edging, over which strings of
pearl beads are festooned. For a cheap
lamp shade, which is lovely as long as
it is fresh and unfaded, pink tarlatan
is a good material. 1t will need to be
double and very fully gathered, and at
the top and bottom there should be full
pinked ruches of the tarlatan. Crimped
paper shades are very decorative, when
the paper flowers are left off, and quite
easy to make. One firm adveitises the
paper already crimped for the purpose;
but the unequal effect of the crimping
which is put in by hand is the more
pleasing. A very dainty. looking shade
is made of the two lightest shades of
green seen in a head of lettuce, the
darker of the two being the lining.
Twelve sheets of each shade of tissue
paper are needed. The French paper
must be used, as no other has tenacity
enough to bear dragging through the
hands in crimping. 1t is better to paste
two sheets together, and draw them
through the hands, squeezing and
pinching them till they have the right
crepe appearance, and then join them
to two more similarly-treated sheets,
adding the pairs in this way till strip
of twelve sheets is crimped and joined
in ring. The twelve sheets of the
other shade are then treated in the
same way, one ring slipped within the
other, and strip of writing-paper put
under at the top for collar, and tackled
with fine stitches or with paste three
inches from the top, the three inches
being pulled out to form frill or ruche.
The process of crimping will so con-
tract the voluminous quantity of paper
that the shade will have to be expanded
little to fit it over the frame.-Bazar.