Covering A Wire Lampshade Frame

Shop in your garden and house for objects you can use as pattern forms for your lampshade.

Covering a wire lampshade frame.

Cut the old lampshade fabric from the lampshade frame with scissors. Select a wire you can bend usually between gauges 8 and 14. S o i ve done a lampshade covering tutorial before but thought i d throw it in here again with my newest project underway. Place the lampshade on its side.

Use rubbing alcohol to clean off the wire supports. Wash the lampshade fabric with laundry. Look at the pots you. Apply hot glue along the outside edge of the top and bottom frame and press the paper into the glue.

Turn the pot upside down on the work table. Center the height of the paper so that there are even amounts of paper above and below the top and bottom of the shade. How to cover a lampshade frame with fabric a hot glue gun 1. You can also add fringe rickrack or other types of materials to cover the hems on the top and the bottom of the newly covered lampshade.

Diy wire lampshade frame step 1. Apply hot glue to the outside of a vertical rib. To re cover your wire frame lampshade also refer to photos below. Remove the existing cover from your lampshade including any old material glue from the metal support wires.

Spread out a large piece of newspaper on a large flat surface such as a table. You ve seen the yardsale lamps i found for the guestroom redo i spied some fabric that i really wanted to use on these lamps so that meant recovering my own. Cut 6 feet of wire with wire. Place the lampshade frame on the.