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Style Gallery
Lamps can be crystal, metal, ceramic or any free form your imagination can conceive. Here are a few suggestions of shade styles to fit various types of lamps:
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Silk Style Shades consist of outer silk type fabric and inside lining stretched over a rust-proof frame. |
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Hard-Back Shades are made with a laminated material shaped with a top & bottom ring. The top ring is refered to as a fitter or a spider. Hard-backed shades are made with a styrene or paper body. |
Lamp Style |
Shade Ideas |
Table Lamps |
Crystal Urn Style
Ginger Jar or Ceramic
Brass or Metal
Candlestick Style Base
Chandelier |
Bell-Square-Empire
Empire or Coolie
Drum-Empire-Bell-Square
Small Cooli-Bell-Square
Small Bell - Empire |
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Floor Lamps |
Bridge Arm (shade hangs down)
3-Arm with Center reflector bowl
With Center Harp
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Uno Bell - Uno Empire
Shallow Drum-Shallow Empire
Empire-Bell-Square |
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Bell |
Coolie |
Empire |
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Drum |
Shallow Drum |
Square |
Lamp Terminology
| Tiffany |
A leaded stained glass art form originally created by Louis Comfort Tiffany over a century ago. (Art Nouveau style) |
| parchment |
Translucent type paper used in hardback style shades. |
| finial |
Decorative top for a lampshade. (Usually screws onto harp and holds down lampshade) |
| ginger jar |
Round or oval ceramic type base for lamp. |
| bridge lamp |
Floor or table lamp with extended arm on top to hold shade. Light usually shines downward. |
| harp |
Hardware used to secure lamp to base. Harps vary in size depending on the shade depth. |
| base |
Decorative body of the lamp. |
| drum style shade |
like a cylinder, the diameter of a typical drum is usually the same on the top and bottom. |
| Waterford Lighting |
High quality Irish crystal in classic, traditional & modern design lamps and chandeliers. |
| reflector bowl |
Glass, open top bowl on top of floor or table lamp which holds shade. |
| uno socket |
Threaded socket usually on a bridge type lamp. Shade screws directly onto this socket. |
| wire frame |
Shade construction for silk-type shades. |
| styrene |
Vinyl backing used on many hardback shades. |
| fitter |
Top part of shade frame. Main types are washer, uno and chimney. |
| silk style shade |
Shade made with a fabric inner lining and outer material over a wire frame. |
| hard back shade |
a shade made with a paper or vinyl backing. |
| Cooli |
A shade with a small top diameter, large bottom diameter and short vertical flare. |
| Socket |
Electical connector into which the bulb is screwed. |
| Torchere |
A standing floor lamp which directs light upward. |
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