A bright, shiny light-filled Hello to you! I am Kirstie Seonaid MacKay, owner/designer/maker at UrbanRebel Design, a dynamic new design studio based near Glasgow in the West of Scotland. I started the business of making lampshades in November last year after attending a workshop on a dark, wet November Sunday in Glasgow. My first shade was a stunning cerise pink, tartan, Harris Tweed which I named “Happy Harry” because it was lighting up such a dark day! My life long obsessio

I’m Nicky… and I’ve been making handmade lampshades as Botany Bay Designs for one year this June. I’ve always been interested in crafts and have dabbled in a variety of things from soap making, silver stamping and dressmaking. However, it was my love (some might call it an obsession!) of fabric which lead me to lampshade making. I am a great believer in using the internet for research and when a family member said they wanted a handmade lampshade with puffins on it I set to w

Meet Archie Mac London and their wonderfully wacky creations! Robyn of Archie mac London just posted this lovely video on her Instagram and we simply had to share it with you. These lampshade beauties are headed off to a secret London location… More to be announced in the coming weeks so watch this space! Archie’s links are below her fab video so do check out her work and be inspired! What do you think about Archie mac London’s work? Let us know in the comments below! We just

Wow! What an epic lampshade journey this has been… Our #lampshadebusinessinabox competition has attracted many talented lampshade designers. We’ve been humbled by their stories and the lovely insight into their journeys setting up and running a lampshade business. All recorded here on our blog. The sheer lampshade talent and creativity that’s out there is mind-blowing! Five lucky runners-up have already won Needcraft lampshade manufacturers’ packs and later today we will anno

Jane Warren has been making lampshades for around 8 years and runs her small business, The Lampshade Loft, from home. Jane is very active on the lampshade scene and her beautiful lighting creations are an obvious winner for our #lampshadebusinessinabox competition! Jane has won a Needcraft lampshade manufacturers pack’ to help her on her business journey. Read on to find out how running her own craft business works for Jane. The name relates to the fact that I sell lovely gen

Laura Pickering of Madam Midnights Lamporium is our first runner-up for the competition #lampshadebusinessinabox! Congratulations Laura! We just love Laura’s bright, colourful, layered creations including drum and soft lampshades made by hand from her home in Cardiff. We are so excited to offer Madame Midnight’s Lamporium one of the five fabulous runner up prizes of a lampshade manufacturing pack! The lucky winner is to be announced on June 29th and will win £250 to spend on

Needcraft customer birdandbutton I just had to share these fabulous handmade, bespoke lampshades made by one of our lovely customers! She uses our lampshade kits to create her gorgeous, bespoke lampshades. Find Bird & Button on Etsy Share this: Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens