Electric, or battery-operated, candles feed you with the ambient luminosity of traditional candles without the blaze hazard an ajar flame presents. Decorating your territory with electric candles serves as a guarded alternative to using the traditional ones, and it gives you the connection to generate custom lampshades for them. Forging homemade lampshades for electric candles provides you with the capability to accent your candlelit universe also with a Broad area of colours, textures and fabrics.
Instructions
1. Degree the top thickness of your electric candle. Reduce a length of material measuring twin this measurement in broadness and twin in heighth. For instance, provided the width of the top of the candle is 4 inches across, the textile must be 8 inches high and 8 inches rangy.
2. Section a length of Supple wire matching the length of the cloth. Bend the length of wire into a classical circle. The breadth of the circle should be Identical to the diameter of the top of the candle.
4. Cut a second length of wire measuring half the size of the first one. For instance, if the first length of wire is 8 inches, then the second length of wire should be 4 inches long.
3. Squeeze a line of fabric glue along the surface of the wire circle. Wrap the bottom edge of the fabric length around it. Form this wire length into another perfect circle.
5. Squeeze glue along the surface of the wire circle. This creates a tube-like structure with the fabric, with a wire ring at each end.
6. Snip two more lengths of wire. Measure and cut these to match the length of the fabric-ring tube. For instance, if the distance between the two ringed ends is 8 inches, cut two 8-inch wires. Squeeze a line of glue on the surface of each wire.
7. Slide each wire inside of the fabric tube opposite one another. This creates a splint at either side that keeps the fabric tube upright. This is what makes it a lampshade. About 1/4 inch of wire will protrude from the wider end of the lampshade. Bend each of the wires into a loop shape.
8. Sit the lampshade on top of the electric candle. The small wire loops protruding from the base will slightly lift the shade from the surface of the candle.
