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Lampshade Style Guide: Velvet Shades
Velvet, it seems, is never out of fashion. Its opulent qualities lend a touch of luxury to our interiors and for lampshades, it’s no...
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- May 4, 2022
- 6 min
BEAM – Offering Returns and Refunds
Although we imagine your lampshades are amazing, there may be some circumstances when a customer wants to return their shade. Dealing...
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- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review - Lampshades by Katrin Cargill
Rated highly by our professional lampshade makers, ‘Lampshades’ by Katrin Cargill at first glance might look like a very average and...
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- Apr 14, 2022
- 7 min
Soft Shade Making Series - How to Make a Pattern
With the preparations for making a traditional soft shade covered in our Soft Shade Making Series, it’s time to talk patterns! Making an...
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- Apr 6, 2022
- 4 min
Lampshade Style Guide - Pleated shades
A lampshade style that’s hit the limelight in recent years, or should that be the spotlight, is the ‘hard’ pleated lampshade, defined by...
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- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Lampshade Kit Hack #9 - Using Vinyl as a Lampshade Inner
Want to make a shade that stands out from the crowd? How about using colourful vinyl on the inside of your shade? Easy to apply and...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 6 min
BEAM – Taking on Bespoke Lampshade Commissions
Packaging your skills in a way that gives the customer choice, can be a valuable way of increasing profit margins and effectively using...
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- Mar 16, 2022
- 5 min
Soft Shade Making Series - How to bind a lampshade frame
Our third post in our Soft Shade Making Series is about laying the foundations for the lampshade ahead, namely binding your lampshade...
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- Mar 8, 2022
- 4 min
Lampshade Style Guide - Empire Lampshades
Welcome to our new Lampshade Style Guide! In our new monthly series, we’ll be looking at one particular style of lampshade and each month...
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- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min
BEAM - Pricing your lampshades to sell
Loving lampshade making shade is one thing, but making enough money to run a sustainable business is quite another. In this BEAM blog...
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- Feb 10, 2022
- 4 min
Soft Shade Making Series: Binding Tape
In our second post of our new Soft Shade Making Series, today we're talking about binding tapes and how they are an essential part of...
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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...
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- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
Soft Shade Making Series: Traditional Lampshade Frames
Lampshade making comes in many forms and although making ‘hard shades’ is a popular and easy way to achieve a stunning new lampshade, our...
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 4 min
BEAM – 5 ways to grow your lampshade making business
Happy 2022! With a new year ahead and after a couple of weeks of essential rest and relaxation, now is a great time to reassess where...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
Blog highlights and Top Posts of 2021
It’s been a busy year on the Dannells blog and with many people trying their hand at lampshade making in the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021,...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Lampshade Inspiration - Different Shade Shapes
As fond as we are of the super versatile drum lampshades, that are seen everywhere from our homes to hotels to the high street,...
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- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Lampshade Inspiration – Stick It Metallic Lampshade Making PVC
Make your next lampshade a metallic one! Easier than you think to achieve, try making a glowing, sumptuous and expensive shade inner...
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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...
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
Behind the Scenes of Needcraft You Tube Video Shoot
Filming our You Tube lampshade videos is easily one of our favourite days of the year and our recent filming in September was no...
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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...
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