Handmade Lampshades

Enjoy your evenings under the soothing and colorful lights coming through these multi-colored embroidered appliqué lampshades. Beautiful mirror works give the effects of evening star. This two-step turquoise blue & royal blue color jhumar lamp shade can be used to add colors to drawing rooms and gardens and put inside bulbs for decorative purposes. It can be use in home & office premises. About indian applique lampshades applique is a french technique that basically cuts up various colored fabrics which are then sewn on to the surface of another foundation fabric. It was first discovered when clothes were ripped and they needed to be sewn over in order to fix them. But essentially it has now developed into a needlework technique in which smaller pieces of fabric, materials like small mirrors and other forms of embroidery are sewn onto a bigger piece of cloth to create designs and patterns. Gorgeous applique technique work that comes from the town of pipli in orissa, india where the streets are kaleidoscope of colors; choc-a-bloc of trasa banners, chandua-canopies, chhattri-umbrellas, animal puppets, wall hangings, covers for shrines, parasols, bags, pouches, cushion covers and lanterns. The typical traditional motifs are varied yet fixed in their colors and representations. Motifs ranging from geometric, abstract, schematized actual life forms to stylized versions of social, natural, astral and mythological characters and objects.