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To make
1. Cover the plant pot tightly
with cling wrap.
2. Cut two A4 pieces of paper
(or use prec ut A4 sheets). Paint
one sheet of paper at a time
with slightly watered down cold
glue and place on the up-ended
plastic-covered pot. Push the air
bubbles out with the brush to
smooth it all over. Place the
next sheet over this to cover
the rest of the pot and press
down over the top edge.
Leave to dry.
3. Cut four lengths of 1,25mm-gauge
wire,each long enough
to go over the pot from one side
to the other and allowing a
slight overlap. Straighten them.
Cut a 15cm length of 0,7mm-gauge
binding wire and, holding
two longer lengths of wire
together in a cross, bind them at
the centre. Add the next length,
bind again and repeat with the
last length. Place the wire shape
on top of the base, slightly off
centre to allow for the wiring,
and bend the individual wires
down over the pot, placing them
where possible over the join lines
of the paper. Turn the pot right
way up, space the wires equally
and pull them upwards as tightly
as possible, and bend them into
the pot.
4. Cut a large piece of paper and
cover with slightly diluted glue.
Place it over the wire on the first
layers. Repeat with more paper
to cover the entire wire
framework, leave to dry and
repeat on e more.
5. Neatly mark the length you
want the shade to be and cut it
neatly. Cut the wires with wire
cutters. Trim the paper shorter if
you are planning to add the
beaded rim.
Decorating the Shades
Pink shade: Trim the paper
but leave the wires exposed.
Weave lengths of binding wire,
threaded with beads, through
and around the framework wires
to cover them and create a bead
border. Trim the ends of the wire
framework to about 1,5cm and
bend them to the inside of the
shade to hold the beads in place.
Green shade: Trim the paper
neatly at the bottom and clip the
wires. Mark eight equally spaced
circles around the bottom of the
shade and carefully cut out with
a craft knife. Hang a bead on a
medium to large jump ring,
punch a small hole above each
circle and push the ring through,
and bend it closed.
To suspend
Switch off the electricity supply. Remove the lamp holder from the cabling, thread it through the lampshade and re-attach the cabling to the lamp holder. Add a bulb (use 60W bulbs only) and suspend.
