{"id":1704,"date":"2009-08-04T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T02:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2009-08-04T23:06:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T03:06:49","slug":"great-clip-on-lamp-shade-the-hunt-for-glass-fiber-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2009\/08\/04\/great-clip-on-lamp-shade-the-hunt-for-glass-fiber-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"great clip-on lamp shade (+ the search for glass fiber paper)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Right after I posted “Are you a secret lighting designer?<\/a>” about down-loadable lamp shade plans and cool, flame-proof materials to improvise with, I came across this really inspired, inexpensive, endlessly useful clip-on lamp shade for sale at tweek<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s just about perfect for hanging bulbs or wall fixtures. Still, I couldn’t help falling into an obsessive Google hunt to find the material it is made out of: \u00a0glass fiber paper seemed like a brilliant material to use in d-i-y shades.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apparently glass fiber paper is normally used for air filter monitoring, but it’s qualities are definitely perfect for lamp shades and lighting in general: it has high temperature resistance, well past 500 degrees; it’s nicely translucent; and it’s tensile, that is, it can be flexed and bent, cut and sewn.<\/p>\n Then I went on the hunt to buy it retail. I surfed the internet for ages, one thing leading to another (filling my head with lots of esoteric, possibly-useful-sometime-in-the-future info). I went from wholesale suppliers in China who required bills of lading and gigantic quantities, to glass-blowing sites (there’s something called fiber paper that seemed possible, though I’m doubting it now) and finally to a laboratory supply site<\/a> that had glass fiber filters in various usable sizes. The problem: you can only order in quantities of 100, EXCEPT for one rather limiting size: 14.2-inch round, which you can only buy 25 of, for $40.<\/p>\n My searches to find materials or information for the projects I have in my head have been known to follow exactly this path: stalling for a while with a question, and no answer. Yet.<\/p>\n I’m putting the word out: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE TO BUY GLASS FIBER PAPER?<\/strong> . I plan to look for a walk-on laboratory supply store.<\/p>\n The answer, no doubt, will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Right after I posted “Are you a secret lighting designer?” about down-loadable lamp shade plans and cool, flame-proof materials to improvise with, I came across this really inspired, inexpensive, endlessly useful clip-on lamp shade for sale at tweek.\u00a0 It’s just about perfect for hanging bulbs or wall fixtures. Still, I couldn’t help falling into an…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6554,298,67],"tags":[362,291,361],"yoast_head":"\n