{"title":"Hand-Marbled Lamp Shades","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarbling is a bookbinding craft. Pigment is floated on a bath of thickened water, drawn into combs and feathers with a rake, and lifted onto a sheet of paper in a single pass. It went onto endpapers for four hundred years before anyone thought to wrap it around a lamp, and it is still done by hand because there is no way to do it any other way. The sheet takes the pattern once and never takes it the same way twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are marbled in India on 100% recycled cotton paper and finished on brass plated steel frames with a spider fitting, so they sit on a standard American harp. \u003cstrong\u003eChiswick\u003c\/strong\u003e is a loose cornflower and slate swirl on cream, the quietest of the four and the easiest to place. \u003cstrong\u003eKelmscott\u003c\/strong\u003e is a combed feather in slate blue and ochre, warm enough to sit with brass and old wood. \u003cstrong\u003eCaslon\u003c\/strong\u003e is a peacock comb in seaglass green, which is the color I am asked for most and almost never find well made. \u003cstrong\u003eDoves\u003c\/strong\u003e is the softest, a blush, sage and antique gold feather that looks like an endpaper left in the light for a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery shade is a 16 inch empire, 6.5 inches across the top and 11.7 inches high. Because the pattern is pulled by hand, the one that arrives will not match the photograph exactly, which is the point of buying a marbled shade rather than a printed one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a cordless lamp, the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/poldina-lamp-shades\"\u003ePoldina shade covers\u003c\/a\u003e are marbled by the same method at a smaller scale. For the printed and block-printed shades, see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/printed-pleated-lamp-shades\"\u003eprinted and patterned lamp shades\u003c\/a\u003e, and for solids, the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/silk-linen-lamp-shades\"\u003esilk and linen shades\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chiswick-hand-marbled-empire-lamp-shade","title":"Chiswick Blue \u0026 White Hand-Marbled Empire Lamp Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003eChiswick is a cornflower and slate blue marble, pulled into loose swirls over a cream ground and finished with a deeper blue trim at the top and bottom edge. From across a room it reads almost as a texture rather than a pattern, which makes it the easiest of the marbled shades to place. I use it on a plain white ceramic or a brass base where nothing has to compete with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper is marbled by hand in India on 100% recycled cotton stock, one sheet at a time, so the pattern falls differently on every shade and no two are alike. The frame is brass plated steel with a spider fitting, sized for standard US lamps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 6.5\" top x 16\" bottom x 11.7\" high\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% recycled cotton paper with brass plated hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpider fitting, compatible with US style lamps and harps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand marbled, so no two shades are identical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kevin Francis Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655275356218,"sku":"ICLHS516HMPOCNWVE","price":184.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/5390\/0858\/files\/97b01e56fa18b940c02a26d6ebded604e3f814640d79db01a5185c43ccec1a9c.webp?v=1789511866"},{"product_id":"kelmscott-hand-marbled-empire-lamp-shade","title":"Kelmscott Blue \u0026 Gold Hand-Marbled Empire Lamp Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003eKelmscott is a combed feather marble in slate blue, ochre and cream, the pattern traditional binders used on endpapers long before anyone thought to put it on a lamp. The gold running through it warms the blue, so it sits easily in a room with brass and old wood rather than reading as a cool pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper is marbled by hand in India on 100% recycled cotton stock, one sheet at a time, so the comb falls differently on every shade and no two are alike. The frame is brass plated steel with a spider fitting, sized for standard US lamps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 6.5\" top x 16\" bottom x 11.7\" high\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% recycled cotton paper with brass plated hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpider fitting, compatible with US style lamps and harps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand marbled, so no two shades are identical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kevin Francis Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655275388986,"sku":"ICLHS516HMPNILFTH","price":184.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/5390\/0858\/files\/132f62bcf65f5078b509da0ad7ce876886b384444a69075c8d7d96bce3c7beb0.webp?v=1789511879"},{"product_id":"caslon-hand-marbled-empire-lamp-shade","title":"Caslon Green Hand-Marbled Empire Lamp Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaslon is a peacock comb marble in seaglass green and soft blue over cream, trimmed in a clear grass green at both edges. Green is the color I am asked for most and almost never find well made, and this one holds its own next to a kelly green or a moss glaze without trying to match either exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper is marbled by hand in India on 100% recycled cotton stock, one sheet at a time, so the comb falls differently on every shade and no two are alike. The frame is brass plated steel with a spider fitting, sized for standard US lamps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 6.5\" top x 16\" bottom x 11.7\" high\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% recycled cotton paper with brass plated hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpider fitting, compatible with US style lamps and harps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand marbled, so no two shades are identical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kevin Francis Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655275421754,"sku":"ICLHS516HMPSGLPCK","price":184.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/5390\/0858\/files\/2d037f80f8a9442bd6625c27accc010b80df7adfa7fef77f14e07ea941353a01.webp?v=1789511889"},{"product_id":"doves-hand-marbled-empire-lamp-shade","title":"Doves Blush \u0026 Gold Hand-Marbled Empire Lamp Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoves is the softest of the marbled shades, a feather pattern in blush, sage and antique gold over cream with an ochre trim. It has the look of a nineteenth century endpaper that has sat in the light for a hundred years, and it is the one I would put in a bedroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper is marbled by hand in India on 100% recycled cotton stock, one sheet at a time, so the comb falls differently on every shade and no two are alike. The frame is brass plated steel with a spider fitting, sized for standard US lamps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis colorway is made to order and ships in three to five weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 6.5\" top x 16\" bottom x 11.7\" high\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% recycled cotton paper with brass plated hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpider fitting, compatible with US style lamps and harps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand marbled, so no two shades are identical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kevin Francis Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655275454522,"sku":null,"price":184.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/5390\/0858\/files\/ce4c2b1503f61779ac218efc98733c2b247d8a0a5d5db027d9f700fbe67e415b.jpg?v=1789511897"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/5390\/0858\/collections\/132f62bcf65f5078b509da0ad7ce876886b384444a69075c8d7d96bce3c7beb0.webp?v=1789512221","url":"https:\/\/kevinfrancisdesign.com\/collections\/marbled-lamp-shades.oembed","provider":"Kevin Francis Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}