How to make a lamp from thread - step by step instructions

Today we will talk about a very fascinating topic. It will be necessary to connect your skillful hands and imagination in order to create a unique chandelier, and we will tell the basics and give examples for creative inspiration.

So, the topic of today's article is a chandelier made of thread. There are a lot of examples and ways of making it on the Internet, but we want to make this material special, so we'll tell you some nuances that few people know about. Let's together make the interior brighter and add a bit of graciousness to it.

The advantages of a lampshade made of thread

Lampshade made of thread will create the atmosphere of a soaring lamp in any room. The light from such a lamp shade is soft and diffused, so it is suitable for almost all rooms in the house or apartment.

A lampshade made of threads with a hole at the bottom will create spot lighting in the work area and fill the room with soft flooding light.

As we will be making it with our own hands, we can create absolutely any shape and at the same time choose the density of thread laying depending on what effect of glow we want to get.

You can use any cotton threads to make the lamp shade. The shape of the lampshade is arbitrary. This example uses a heart-shaped balloon. A great solution to surprise the beloved.

Dense threading is used to make the object stand out, but the light will be mediocre. In this solution, it is worth applying a bright light source, for example, a 12-watt LED lamp will be good to highlight the plafond, and the lighting will take on a shade of thread and flood the entire room with soft light.

The method with a dense laying of coils of thread is better used for rooms where there is spot lighting of work areas, and the main light does not perform its carrying value. For implementation, it is perfectly suited to places of rest, such as bedroom ..

The light from such a light fixture gets a shade of thread. The denser you lay the coils, the dimmer and softer the light you get. A good table night light.

A topical solution would be to make a white lampshade - it is a versatile plafond, which is perfect for a modern interior in a business style. Why universal, you may ask? The shape of the design of the lampshade is a trimmed ball. Due to the easy access inside you can change the brightness of such a chandelier by laying a thin layer of synthetics.

A chandelier made of thread will surprise your guests and bring pleasure to the process of making it.

To summarize: A lampshade made of thread, a modern interior object. Thanks to its individual shape, it is a unique plafond for any lamp in your home. It is recommended to use only cotton or woolen threads, because they hold their shape better.

You can play with the technology of manufacture and make a multilevel multicolored design - such a solution will be an excellent surprise for children's room or a pop-art style room.

"The thinker sees his actions as experiments and his questions as attempts to figure something out. Success and failure for him are above all answers." Friedrich Nietzsche

What's good for the basics

A string light can be made in two ways. The first is that we make the whole thing from the beginning with our own hands. The second - we remake an old lamp shade. Let's start with the second option and see what we can get from an old lampshade.

An old lampshade and not a new weave still looks great. Subtlety and minimalist, a delightful solution.

Macrame weaving looks good, this technology will probably never go out of fashion, but such a composition has its disadvantages. Not everyone will be able to repeat the presented work and such a solution is not suitable for every interior. Let's go further and look at others.

This execution will be to the liking of many.

A variant with a lampshade made of woven thread will look good in the children's room. To bring it to life you will need only an old lamp and a skein of thread, then your imagination and a little time.

An old umbrella can come in handy, too.

You can make a lampshade out of threads only after you have drilled a lot of small holes under the threads. For the light of such a lampshade not to dazzle the eyes, the lamp can be placed in a small cylinder or ball, they can be glued from the threads, for example, like this.

The process of making

A round-shaped balloon is used as the base. The balloon is inflated and coated with a thin layer of vaseline, then we wrap it with cotton thread and coat it with liquid PVA glue over the entire area of the thread.

Perform the procedure carefully and let it dry for 24 hours.

The dried balloon is ready to use as soon as it dries, it takes 24 hours. Is there still a balloon inside it? Pop it. Cut out the hole for the lamp carefully with scissors. Addition to the umbrella - finished.

A clear example will be in this video.

You can use any base, for example, An old vase or a plastic bottleWe recommend to let your imagination run wild and leave what you get in the comments below.

Due to the low weight of the plafond, you can make a composition like this from the threads.

All you need is a good dry branch, 4 m of electrical wire, 3 lamp sockets and fishing line to fix our piece of wood over the dining table.

To wrap these lamps, use the technique described above and use garden pots and a small bucket as a template. Don't forget petroleum jelly - it will make it easy to remove the plafond from the template. Carry out the electrical part, observing the safety rules, all work on the connection should be carried out with the mains power off.

As a source of light for such designs can act literally everything, even garland. In this case, you just need to pass the cable with the lamps of the garland in the empty spaces of our plafonds and lay the garland in a secluded corner - an intimate atmosphere is ready.

A pasted cardboard is used as the base of the chandelier. An anchor bolt with a long thread is drilled into the ceiling and a decorative nut holds our design.

The lampshades are made of multicolored threads, and the wires are left in their natural form. Complement such a design by wrapping with braided thread, such a solution will hide the annoying white color in this picture.

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Useful tips

If you have decided to make a lamp from thread with your own hands, then you have 24 hours maximum to get the finished result and this instruction is for you:

1. Decide on the subject of creativity - use an old light fixture for remodeling or create a unique new one.
2. Stock up on PVA glue and multi-colored cotton thread, it takes 40 to 70 meters of thread for one soccer ball-sized lamp.
3. You will need a socket, wire, lamp and a connecting strip to connect the electrical part.
4. Feel free to experiment, your imagination is the key to an ingenious solution. Think in advance how the finished plafond will be attached, perhaps you need to wind more filament in a certain place, in this case the construction will be stronger.
5. Before winding the thread on the chosen template, be sure to treat it with vaseline so that the glue with the thread will not stick.
6. If you want to create a quality neck for the chuck mount, use a ring and wrap the thread around it at the plafond shaping stage.

In this case, the cartridge wires are threaded through the space between the threads. The caps on top of the plafond serve a decorative role.

We used a plastic five-liter bottle as a template. The spiral winding plafond made of dense filament allows you to direct the light to the desired location. The luminaire is made of three plafonds, which are connected by a mains cable.

Conclusion

Do not make bulky designs, a chandelier made of thread is made light and floating, it should be airy and contrasting. You can use threads of different colors, laying them under another layer or on the contrary, wrap a yellow ball with green thread in a chaotic order.

Master class: balls of thread.

Friends, we will end here, we hope this article has helped you to master the basic skills of making a lamp from thread, and you took something useful for yourself. And what ways of making such fixtures do you know about? Maybe you can give us some information that we can add to our article or an interesting idea for making lamps. We would be very happy to discuss this topic with you. See you next time.