Friday, July 22, 2011

Choosing Glass Colors For Glass Lamp Shades

By Mariko Moriyama


The type of glass lamp shades that is widely known as Tiffany shares a history with the illustrious purveyor of jewelry that is renowned all over the globe. The creator, Louis Comfort Tiffany, lived in the early 1900s, forging novel art and innovating in the field of interior design. Tiffany was the boss of his own business. He took advantage of the financial freedom to innovate profusely, using finely honed methods in stained glass and migrating them into new media. The lamp shades that carry his name are well-known for having vibrant hues and stylistic emphasis. Even so many decades later the debut of his lamps they remain highly imitated and reproduced.

Artists who work with glass and aspire to make stained lamp shades need to choose the types of colors to put into the lamp. The look of a pane depends on many factors. Chief among these are the thickness and evenness of glass, and also the little bits of imperfections that add character.

A useful method of visualizing this diversity is to imagine a scene that could have inspired a Tiffany shade in real life. A example is flowered clearing in the wild that has all sorts of green leaves with different hues that catch light in different ways, and splotches of brown dirt of rich textures.

Yet another helpful hint in picking out glass is to lay them next to each other and shine light with different temperatures on them. Light has something called a "spectrum", which is basically all the wavelengths that are emitted. Different spectra lead to different kinds of impact on how a piece of glass looks.

After the colors are selected, the glass maker must think about the shape. The term torchiere evokes a standing light with a single source of bulb on top. Frequently torchiere light shades can be found in places that require soothing light. The lamp shade is usually a wide conical shape which opens upward for shining the light at a wide angle, resulting in the fact that the light softly filters evenly across the room. The sizes and available hues are quite varied for torchiere shades. Ensure you have the correct width by measuring the top diameter, as well as the width of the fitter.

A number of other shapes are available for light shades. A few of the sought after ones are the hurricane shades and the gas shade. The shades that have the hurricane classification are characterized by an hour-glass profile that gets fat in the waist and afterwards getting narrow into a pinched-off neck. Because of its distinctive shape it is a highly striking piece of lighting. The traditional gas light shade hails us from the Victorian age of the United Kingdom. At the time utility gas lighting first became widespread, it gave impetus to societal advancements to the European cultures.




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