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Jan 31, 2022
2 min

Share the Shade Love - Celebrate your Favourite Lampshade Maker

Valentine, Galentines or Palentines is just around the corner and regardless of which one you celebrate, we’ll be helping you share a different love – the love for your fellow lampshade makers! We’re super proud of you, the community of lampshade makers that use Dannells products, and we see time and time again how you step up and support each other, sharing tips, knowledge or simply liking a commenting on other lampshade makers shades across social media. So, to celebrate th

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Nov 30, 2021
4 min

BEAM - 5 Amazing Ideas for Packing Your Professional Lampshades

Making stunning lampshades that are carefully crafted is only one part of being a lampshade maker and retailer and packaging your beautiful lampshades, so that your customer receives them in pristine condition is equally important. In today’s post, we'll share ideas for wrapping and protecting your shades including tips from our Lampshade Makers Facebook Group, clever eco packing inspiration and Dannells products to help you reach the packing pinnacle! 1. Under Wraps Protecti

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Nov 25, 2021
5 min

Meet the Maker - Detola and Geek

This month's Meet the Maker, Detola of Detola & Geek came to lampshade making later in life, using her passion for African textiles as her vehicle for a new self-taught career. Building her business from making lampshades that pack a colourful punch to celebrate her Nigerian heritage, she cleverly uses a variety of lampshade shapes and sizes to show off the bold and beautiful patterns to their max. We catch up with Detola and find out more about how Detola & Geek started, how

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Oct 29, 2021
6 min

Meet the Maker - Silversoles Felted Textiles

A master of felt making, Emma of Silversoles uses her talents to make unquestionably beautiful and tactile lampshades, that bring both modern and traditional textures into her customers homes. With a background in textiles, Emma immediately fell in love with the hands on nature of her craft and it's sustainability, leading her to develop and play with a wide range of felting techniques and patterns. We chat to Emma in this month's Meet the Maker interview to find out more ab

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Sep 22, 2021
3 min

Meet the Maker - Copper Dust

Spotting a gap in the market, Vanessa of Copper Dust used her eye for interiors and gut instinct to start out in the world lampshade making. Inspired by the bold colours and stand out prints of her mixed heritage, she began creating gorgeous statement shades. From then to now, Vanessa has gone on to successfully develop her business by retailing a range of beautifully curated lifestyle products and offering first class interior design services. In this month's Meet the Maker,

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Aug 31, 2021
4 min

Meet the Maker - Lume lighting

Combining her passion for clean and simple design and talent for detailed printing, Joanna of Lume Lighting creates lampshades that are nothing short of beautiful. Ranging from intricately patterned modern drums to ombre traditional shades, along with her fabulous new wooden pendant lights, Joanna has built up a successful lighting business. We go behind the scenes to find out about her creative influences, what her days look like and why she loves lampshade making! Hi there!

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Jul 27, 2021
4 min

Meet the Maker - Crushshade

Proving that lampshades can be the most creative part of your room, Cath of Crushshade has blown us away with her incredible sculptured lighting that not only oozes beautiful form, but incorporate clever use of colour and pattern too. Drawing on her studies in Textiles and surface pattern design, Cath sees each of her shades as a piece of textile art, which we wholeheartedly agree with! We caught up with her for this month's Meet the Maker interview to find out more about ho

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Jun 29, 2021
7 min

Meet the Maker - Wendy Carlton Designs

Starting her career in fashion, Wendy Carlton of Dotty and Flo, has enjoyed applying her talent for painting to many commercial mediums over the years. More recently, after turning her bright and exquisite artworks into fabrics, Wendy made lampshades and cushions to give her customers the chance to own affordable pieces of her art and bring her passion for nature and colour into their homes. Building her successful homewares business up from scratch, we're thrilled to find ou

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Jun 4, 2021
4 min

Meet the Maker - Made by HRM

In this month's Meet the Maker interview we get to know talented lampshade maker Helen, of Made by HRM, who's a whirlwind of creativity with a passion for bright, colourful fabrics and quirky prints. Her love of making lampshades and Needcraft clocks has allowed her to build a successful retail craft business from her home, where she also enjoys teaching workshops, all while juggling her new family and her studies! Read on to find out what makes Helen tick. Hi there! How are

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May 7, 2021
4 min

Meet the Maker - Hearts and Glitter

Nestled in her studio in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, Anita has built up her successful lampshade making business, Hearts and Glitter, after a career break to have her three children. She now specialises in beautiful bespoke lampshades made from British fabrics in soft pastels, traditional florals and conversational prints, styles that marry perfectly with her rural studio, that adjoins her family home. We chat to Anita, to find out more about her lampshades, her custome

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Mar 2, 2021
5 min

Meet the maker - Kettle of Fish Designs

Combining her childhood passion for collecting, her eye for fine art and her talent for creating beautifully made objects, we are delighted to meet Karen Kench of Kettle of Fish Designs. After long searches for things that truly represented her own style and taste, Karen set about turning her skills to making lampshades, jewellery, homewares and prints carefully incorporating the character of vintage finds. The results are astonishing and unique lampshades, that tell beautifu

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Feb 8, 2021
2 min

Share the Love - Celebrating our independent Lampshade Makers

February is the month of love and we thought we’d "Share the love" by celebrating our incredible independent lampshade makers and small businesses. Always ready to support our maker community, whether it’s a simple question about a product, helping you design your own fabric or making up trade packs in our warehouse, we love helping you expand your business; side hustle or main source of income. Shape, size, style, trims, fabrics and creative additions make every shade except

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Feb 4, 2021
5 min

Meet the Makers - Co-Vintage

With a joint love of all things vintage, best friends Charlotte and Kirsty of Co-Vintage set off on an adventure learning macramé together during lockdown, as a way to keep in touch. Nearly one year on they have truly mastered the art and we're in awe of the stunning macrame lampshades they've designed and created. The end result of their talent with knots and eye for design, is a successful Etsy business that alongside unique macrame lampshades also stocks macramé homewares

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Dec 9, 2020
5 min

Meet the Maker - Alison Bick

Channelling the beauty of her home surroundings in Cornwall, Alison Bick's bold and beautiful lampshades certainly pack a punch. Using her talents in graphic design, Alison has created a unique modern floral style that translates perfectly to lampshades, both large and small and as a recent winner of our #memadeshade Instagram competition, she stole the show with her whopping one metre Bird of Paradise shade! We find out more about Alison's inspiration, her approach to lampsh

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Oct 21, 2020
3 min

Meet the Maker - Jane Ellison Textiles

Meet Jane Ellison, a talented printer who's 'modern retro' screenprinted lampshades are influenced by mid-century design and modern shapes.

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Sep 30, 2020
3 min

5 brilliant ways to make your retail lampshades look professional

Do you make and sell and your own lampshades? This week we’re sharing our tips on how to give your products the retail edge.

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Aug 20, 2020
5 min

Meet the Maker - Laura Evans

This week we meet Laura Evans, a fine artist, collagrapher, printmaker and of course lampshade maker from the Isle of Purbeck. As she takes on her first retail space, we're excited to chat with her about how this will make a difference to her creative business and where she draws her inspiration from for her range of beautifully delicate printed shades. Hi there! How are you today and what’s on your workbench? I'm great thanks, today I have a conical shade in process, it’s a

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Jul 2, 2020
3 min

Meet the Maker - Bridget Arnold

Bridget Arnold wears many artistic hats, but has found that foraging in nature's hedgerows on the Granite Trail, provides her with all of the creative materials and inspiration she needs! Crafting her striking sun printed fabrics, Bridget cleverly uses earthy colours, to capture the plant's naturally intricate detail on her shades which are beautifully brought to life by light. We catch up with Bridget to find out more on her creative life. Hi there! How are you today and wha

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Jun 19, 2020
5 min

Meet the Maker - Poppet Retro

Catering for every taste, our fabulous lampshade makers use their passions and skills to make our lampshade making products sing - and Poppet Retro is no different. Ali, Poppet Retro's founder, takes her passion for all things vintage and her love of sourcing original vintage fabrics and trims to create stylish, one of kind midcentury lampshades. Her enthusiasm has even lead her to create her own beautiful hand turned wooden lamps. Let's find out what floats Poppet Retro's cr

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May 21, 2020
6 min

Meet the Maker - Jasmine Yahkup

Welcome in to Club Tropicana, a place where lampshades are adorned in the wonderful and lush artwork of talented surface pattern student and designer, Jasmine Yahkup. By taking her designs and ideas back to her cultural roots and combining this with her a love of all things flora and fauna, her lampshades have a brightness and detailed tropical charm. Read on to to find out about Jasmine's inspiration... Hi there! How are you today and what’s are you working on at the moment?

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