About Lamps

Craig Chambers asked:


Painted lamp shades are a must for rustic style decorating, or for use in any cabin, lodge, or ranch style home. The appealing style they add to your home will have your friends talking about your incredible designer style long after they leave.

In fact, I love these wonderful shades so much that I enjoy giving them as gifts for birthdays or special occasions. These lamp shades are an interesting way to enhance great southwest or Native American style in your home decor and create a look that is truly amazing.

From interesting portrayals of American Indians and beautiful mountain terrain, to detailed paintings of dry desert scenery and Indian homes, you will definitely be amazed with how these hand crafted lamp shades enhance your home’s western design and style. What I enjoy most about decorating with painted lamp shades or giving them as gifts, are the many different colors and options obtainable.

You can choose from magnificent artwork on dyed pigskin leather lamp shades that come in many colors including red, green, black, gold, wine, brown or natural, or find a painting you like on a natural rawhide shade in a light or dark color.

No matter which you choose, you will certainly find one that matches your color palette and your decorating style. The incredible work of the hand-stitched leather on the leather lamp shade brings great character and genuine Native American design to your rustic cabin or ranch style home.

Don’t have a ranch style home to decorate? The nicest thing about painted lamp shades is that they look equally as well in all rooms of your home and wherever else you would like to add Native American design. The great thing about painted lamp shades is that they are a very easy way to change your home lighting or makeover a home without having to have the expenses of remodeling.

Use painted lamp shades on unique western style home lighting fixtures such as wrought iron or antler lamps to bring out a genuine natural mountain look, or simply switch the shade on the standard style lamps that you already own to enhance Native design.

Frequently used on chandelier lamps for lighting large rooms or for table lamps and desk lamps, painted lamp shades are excellent for using anywhere you want to incorporate a bit of color with western flare. You will be excited to see how effortlessly a lamp shade can change the design of the entire room and create authentic western style in your home.

Use painted leather lamp shades with other country or Native American style accessories for authentic western design. Painted lamp shades look incredible when combined with Native American blankets and throws, kiva ladders, Native drums, or hand-made baskets and pottery.

These one of a kind shades are difficult to buy in retail stores where western decor accessories are sold, but you can find them online. If you enjoy the designer style homes typically found in the southwest, or are simply looking for a way to bring great rustic style to your interior decorating, try using the unique artwork of painted lamp shades.



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Lighting plays a major role in everyone’s life. An attractive lighting arrangement brings a whole new look to the place. A variety of lamps and lightings are used for varied purposes. Lightings are used for decoration, for brighten up the area in dark and many more. An appropriate arrangement of lamps and lighting can change the look of the room. Lightings can make it look much wider and airy in comparison to its actual condition.

A soothing lighting arrangement will make you feel relaxed after the tiring work of whole day. Lamps and lightings fulfill our so many objectives. People use it for safety and security purposes and also for performing activities in the room. In a dark room, lighting brings a sensational effect with stimulating atmosphere in the room. Lightings are easy to install and very inexpensive too. A variety of lightings are designed by the manufacturer studying its varied purposes.

Some of the popular lamps and lighting are:-

•    Portable lighting: As its name depicts, portable lamps and lightings can be moved from one corner of the room to other as per the requirement. They are available in many forms allowing the flexibility in all designs.

•    Table lamps: They are specifically designed to be placed on the tables to light up the dark corners of the room. They are usually placed on the end-table or buffet. Table lamps and lighting cast omni-directional or unfocused light.

•    Desk lamps: These lamps and lightings are generally used to brighten up the specific area. They are placed on the tables for reading purposes. They illuminate the smaller area intensely. For this type of lamps and lightings, it is recommended to place the source 15 inches above the desk level.

•    Armed lamps: These are special type of lamps and lightings with a movable arm to direct the direction of the light. These lamps and lightings are used to illuminate the smaller areas for specific purposes. If you are using it for reading purpose, keep the source 15 inches above the book level. Armed lamps are generally fixed up in the wall with hard wires to save the space on the table. And can work efficiently for all purposes.

•    Floor lamps: These lamps and lightings are free from distracting glares and shades. It gives omni-directional unfocused lighting to brighten up all the dark corner of the room. These lamps and lightings are appropriate to use beside the sofa or sitting arrangement.

•    Torchieres: These lamps and lightings are the tall floor lamps which diffuses the light upwards. They are generally used in the places with higher ceilings. For ambient and general purposes, torchieres lamps and lighting are used.

Along with the type of lamps and lighting you are using to illuminate the room, the placement of the source plays a major role in creating a relaxed ambience.



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onebrady asked:


Louis Comfort Tiffany is an American designer and artist who had pioneered the art of stained glass lamp making. His innovation, the stained glass lamps, came to be known worldwide as Tiffany lamps, now an unavoidable decorative piece in many homes/hotels. Tiffany’s name is also closely associated with the Art Nouveau/Aesthetic movements.

The late 1800s and early 1900s witnessed new inventions and techniques in lamp making such as the patented translucent “milky” glass known as opalescent glass – by John La Farge – and stained glass lamps or the Tiffany decorative lamps by Louis Tiffany. In a sense, his technology was not entirely novel. He just used a technology that was totally confined to window pane decoration for centuries to the making of lamp shades. But the credit is still bestowed upon Tiffany because trying to migrate window pane technology to lamp shades, with every work being hand done, was quite an effort in itself. Also, then he had to create a market for the new lamps, which none was aware of existing then.

Louis Tiffany used thin copper foils to tape individual glass pieces, which are then soldered together to form the glass pane. In the old window pane technology, but there lead was used as the substance to hold the glass pieces together. Tiffany showed that by substituting lead with copper not only makes the glass weighs less, but also copper’s malleability ensures that finer lines and hence complex designs can be weaved in more easily to the stained glass shades or big and complex window panes used in churches.

In the days of Tiffany, the lamp shades were entirely handmade. Now, with the advent of technology and automation, nearly every process that goes on behind the scene of Tiffany lamp making has become automatic, with minimal human interference. Also, copper foils and colored glass has given way to more costly and cheaper substances. In fact, the reality that there is Tiffany lamps that costs hundreds and thousands of dollars will itself give one an idea as to what all materials can go into the making of fancy Tiffany lamps, even though lamp makers prefer to keep such information one of their trade secrets.

But critics, who see Tiffany lamp making as an art, say that fusing, slumping, and bending of glass in modern electric home kilns has in fact made the job a lot easier, and it had taken away the element of expertise that was required in the early days, a reality that in fact reflects in the Tiffany lamp shades that are available today in the market. But, on the other side of the coin, this is also the reason why Tiffany glass lamp making, the vocation, has become so common these days. The availability of factory made cheap glass in abundance, and improved training techniques have also contributed to more people taking to Tiffany lamp making as a profitable vocation. It is profitable because, across the globe, in homes and offices, Tiffany lamps are still a sought after décor item.



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