Lampshade from threads with their own hands: master class, step by step description and recommendations

Comfort, comfort and style are three whales on which the design of any house or apartment is built. As you know, the cozy home atmosphere, which you want so much to dive after a hard day's work, consists of small at first glance details and details. Someone uses the services of a designer to create the long-awaited sense of a cozy home, and someone tries to create a miracle with their own hands.

Chandelier with your own hands

If you also decided to change something in your home, to bring a note of stylish originality to the design of your home, then we offer you a detailed master-class "Shade of thread and balloon". Threaded balls will look very impressive both in the minimalist living room and in the bright children's room, where a magical mess reigns.

Also, plus this idea is also that you have to spend on the product at a minimum. Lampshade of thread will cost a mere penny, but it will look like a stylish, unusual and spectacular design decoration.

You can make one big balloon and hang it in the living room. You can make a few small balls-lamps and decorate their bedroom. White balls without light bulbs can become just a stylish addition to the New Year's decor. There are a lot of options. If you choose the right colors and sizes, show a little imagination, then the lampshade from the thread will harmoniously fit into any interior.

What will you need?

• In order to make a lampshade out of thread, you will need a regular balloon. Try to choose high-quality balls that will not burst at the first hit into the air cavity.
• You will also have to tear up your yarn supplies and choose the color of the yarn that will fit perfectly into the interior and be combined with furniture or any other details in the room. A ball with a diameter of forty centimeters will need about three standard skeins of yarn.
• For gluing threads, many are advised to use a special wallpaper glue or glue on a starch-based basis. But how to make a lampshade from the thread and the ball yourself, if you do not have these materials at hand? The answer is simple - do not waste money, do not throw the venture and do not run immediately to the store. Look in the office of the child, there probably is a large stock of regular school glue PVA. It is perfect for gluing yarn to the surface of the ball.
• Scissors.
• Stock up with rubber gloves. Work with sticky glue is a lot.
• Capacity for glue.
• Brush for spreading glue.
• Light fittings, wire for hanging the finished product to the ceiling and a light bulb (conventional or energy-saving, non-heating).

We inflate the ball

First, determine the size. You definitely need to understand how many balls you need and what should be the shade from the thread. We inflate the ball carefully to the desired shape. Try to tie the ball, as they say, firmly-firmly. If you are too weak to tie the base of the ball, while the glue will dry, the ball will be blown off. In the end, you get a formless circle, not a circle that does not fit at all to decorate their home.

Remember Primary School

Do you remember how they made animals in the "papier-mache" method at school? But if then we used ordinary sheets of paper, applying them to a form impregnated with glue, now the paper will be replaced with yarn.

Pour glue into a specially prepared in advance a spacious container. We put on rubber gloves to protect the manicure and the skin of the hands from the effects of the glue. Begin to dip the yarn gradually in the glue. You can even say that it is not easy to soak and soak threads. They need to soak up them very well.

Some use glue in cans. A hole is made there and a thread is passed there. There are a lot of options on the Internet about how to wet the threads and how to make a lampshade from the threads with your own hands. The master class that we offer, recommends the use of a container for glue.

According to the advice of specialists, according to individual reviews of the housewives, who have already decorated their houses with luminaires made of thread, this is a more convenient option. In addition, to soak all the threads at once is much more convenient than sitting and letting three skeins through the jar with glue. Saving time and effort is no small matter.

Attaching the thread

When the thread is well impregnated with glue, it can be attached to a ball. First fix it in the bottom of the ball. Knit tight, make nodules. Do not be afraid that the thread will stand out from above or the tips will stick out. After all has dried up, unnecessary details will simply be removed with the help of scissors.

And now comes the most creative moment. When the base of the thread and the ball are tightly connected, one can begin to wind the thread on the ball itself. You can do this in any order. The appearance of the lampshade will depend on the size of the thread you have chosen, from its color and from the winding version.

Tip: if you make a lamp shade of thread and ball for the living room or the children's room, where there should be more light, then try to wind the threads not too close to each other. So the weaving will be chaotic, but not continuous. If the lampshade is prepared to create a romantic atmosphere in the bedroom, then you can "darken", that is, wind the threads more tightly to each other.

When to stop? We advise you to reel the thread until the ball almost completely disappears from view. As a rule, enough for this four or five layers of thread. Also, try to finish the winding on the top of the ball. There you will fasten the end of the thread.

For the stronghold of the fortress, you can walk along the coiled strands of PVA glue, applying it already with a brush.

How to Dry a Ball

It is recommended that the ball be suspended so that it does not lose its shape. If there is no such possibility, then find the volume dishes and place the ball there. It can be a round basin or a deep pan. We wait a day until the product finally dries.

And the ball broke something

After all is dry, you can burst the ball. This should not cause any difficulties.

Advice: before starting the process of winding the yarn, apply a thin layer of Vaseline on the base or degrease the surface with an alcohol solution. This will allow the threads to easily move away from the ball when you burst it.

Let there be light!

So, you already know how to make a lampshade out of thread and ball. It remains a little - to fix our product on the ceiling. To do this, take a light bulb, screw it into the lighting fixture. Fix the reinforcement with brushes inside the shade. Then it remains to adjust the length of the wire. It is necessary that the lighting element is strictly in the center of your thread creation.

We attach a new lighting device to the ceiling hook. We turn on the light and enjoy our work.

Additional recommendations

• Choose a quality glue that will not turn yellow after drying. Otherwise, the color of the threads will change.
• It is not recommended to hang such lighting in bathrooms and saunas. Humidity, reigning in the air, can adversely affect the product. The lampshade will simply get wet, the glue will not hold the thread, and the whole structure will fall apart.
• Use additional decor elements, glue them to already dried threads. Butterflies or stars, petals or flower buds will only add unusualness and style to your product.
• You can also use openwork napkins, lace or light-passing fabrics instead of yarn.