DIY Victorian Lampshade | Attempting to make 2 Lampshades

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you for watching 🖤 Which lampshade did you like most?

[@Nicole-bi9zl]

I personally love the black with red, like I said my gf just started making lampshades and she looks for material everywhere. She just ordered some lampshades from Mary maxwell!

[@iquegrey76]

Green is my favorite color, but both of them are so beautiful and ornate

[@dianedaemon155]

Love your video. Where did you get your trim and other supplies? Your shades are beautiful!

[@DeIicateFynn]

Wow. I can feel the finger cramps! Very nice work

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Haha and somehow I still want to do it again

[@trina0373]

Blues are usually my colors, but I'm really feeling the black and red ♥️

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

A blue lampshade would be lovely 🖤

[@susanbarton8969]

The red and black shade is stunning , I love it.😍

[@dead80s]

OMG, i am so surprised this doesn't have more views! most other videos on victorian lampshade making seemed to come from people who already had a background in making them. it's easy as hell to get psyched out of making more intensive projects like this, especially when your only point of reference is from someone who makes it look so effortless. it's nice to have an informative video about the process from someone who is also learning! thank you so much, your end products are so beautiful!!!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much for this comment, so glad you enjoyed it 🖤

[@jennglow4647]

Very pretty 😀

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤

[@deborahaminogue4196]

Oh yeah! They are gorgeous. I am drawn to the red one. Gorgeous.

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤 I think that is my favorite as well

[@BuddyLuv]

Thanks for all this info. I want to make a lamp for myself and what you've provided here is super helpful and much appreciated. Well done on the lamps - the black and red one is especially beautiful with that bead trim!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

So happy you found it helpful 🖤

[@ADGD13]

Me encato !!! Estoy alusinada de todas las cosas que haces!!! Es lo que siempre estuve buscando y por fin te encontre gracias !!!! Desde ARGENTINA !!!

[@zuzuu999]

Oh wow they are gorgeous!!🖤🖤🖤

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@granolakitti8521]

You are amazing, this was precisely what I was seeking and your whole channel is so much "me"! Thank you ❤️

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Aww thank you so much 🖤 I'm so happy you enjoy it

[@granolakitti8521]

@@NasyaAcostaSmith holy fridge, you got a lot of other cool videos! Off to the binge!

[@lisascenic]

Absolutely glorious! You should be incredibly proud of your work. I’ve got a 1920s bridge lamp that needs its shade covered. Your video is genuinely more informative than the folks who gloss over the tricky parts. Thank you for that. 🦇 ❤️🦇❤️🦇

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤 that would be such a fun project!

[@maxine4898]

These are absolutely gorgeous, love them, thank you ❤

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Glad you like them 🖤

[@iquegrey76]

Your work was beautiful, Im glad you made the video to share it with us

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it 🖤

[@beccamichelle]

You are such a great teacher :) Thanks!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed 🖤

[@joelongstaff7601]

Thankyou for a great video. I'm designing a parlour for the basement and I have been thinking victorian now with your lamp idea shades it's decided. I have a couple bronze statues for the base. I was thinking stained glass shades but yours look much more fitting. Now I will build the wire frames to fit. I'd like to see the room you put the shade in.

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

That all sounds so amazing, best of luck with your project! I have a video here of what I did with the rest of the room. I mention the lampshade about two-thirds of the way through kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3bcp36ua8mDY7Msi=_pGrFUzaTIbU-W4T

[@angelclstudioartgallery591]

They were both beautiful the red I loved

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤I think I'm partial to the red as well

[@rhirhilockwood3290]

These turned out beautiful! You did such a good job. I loved the red one with the large appliqué on it 😍

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you, I think that's my favorite as well 🖤

[@rampanttricky17]

thank you for this video! those are very ambitious (?) shades to start with. i love the way you described what you did and why -- the reason for the design elements. it is often difficult to capture the result of a lighting project - they so often look different in person vs in still images or video. it is my impression that "darkness" in the result is intentional. these are not for reading lights, they are to provide light necessary to highlight their own features and create a dark but navigable space - where the shades themselves seem to consume the light. ❤

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much for your comment 🖤 Yes absolutely, they defiantly lean more towards being decor or art rather than the most functional of light sources

[@sandrawalker7076]

Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you so much for this!!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it 🖤

[@shaleahlewis7012]

So in love!!! Absolutely exquisite work 🥰 well done!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@ravenfeathesDVM]

That is fantastic! I love it. It looks so witchy. 💕

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you, so glad you liked it 🖤

[@ibono99]

Beautiful work. I liked the way you completed each task, very detailed I'm gonna try.

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤 you so should, it’s a very fun project

[@loripowell7654]

Stunning!!!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤

[@annellneal4198]

Gorgeous pieces

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@AnnieWilson-dg3wj]

This was so helpful! I'm surprised this isn't more popular, thank u!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Aww thank you so much, glad you enjoyed 🖤

[@joyceburkhart6606]

I am going to attempt to do 2😬 Ty for your tutorial. Your Lamps are Beautiful.

[@SDWife]

I love this so much ❤️🖤❤️

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

🖤🖤🖤

[@arthurmertens2182]

I can see that Christine Mcconnel is your inspiration😂 but it’s gorgeous

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

I actually had ordered and already was working on my lampshades before she posted anything 😂 but I absolutely love her. I was very inspired by Mary Maxwell and others who have been preserving this art form for several decades from the Victorian era I left her info in the description as she's an amazing resource

[@Tifadanielian]

They are both so beautiful 😍 I love the Moulin Rouge effect of the red one, and the green is giving me Victorian meets Slytherin vibes. ❤️

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@angelsalavec9190]

I love this vid. Your personality really comes through and I can totally relate to you. I'm a novice at this too. Walked in to Joann's yesterday and was completely overwhelmed. Got my frames from Mary Max too. She is so helpful! I'd love to see how your shades turned out with the light on! Good Work!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤 Have fun working on your lampshades!

[@barbaragrace1992]

Beautiful work. I also do lampshades. 🥰

[@WheezyCatLady]

Beautiful! I’m doing lots of research about this craft before I attempt one myself. The only thing you could have done to make your life a lot easier (according to what I’ve found online) is to cut your fabric on the bias. Then you can pull and tug your fabric and create like a taught drum effect over the sections. Bias creates stretch so you’ll not need to wrestle with the fabric to make it lay ‘flat’. I hope this is helpful to anyone reading!! P.S I am Living for the red one ❤

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Ahh that feels so obvious now that you say it, I got it pretty tight but there was some streaking in the fabric, cutting on the bias would have definitely solved that. Thank you for your comment 🖤

[@WheezyCatLady]

@@NasyaAcostaSmith Thank you for the reply. Sending love

[@Tiffany_55]

Wow they turned out great!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤

[@galaxyboi22]

Wow they came out beautifully ❤️🖤

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@angelclstudioartgallery591]

Your work is beautiful ty for sharing you are very talented abig well done to both lamp shades

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@oliviabattistini8748]

I live in Connecticut, can you share what store you are talking about for the fabric and what not? Thank you 😊 also, this lamp is gorgeous!!!

[@oliviabattistini8748]

Oh wait I just googled fabric stores near me-is it actually called affordable fabric? lol

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤 Yes! Affordable Fabrics in Rocky Hill, they also have a store in Uncasville never been but they said it's a bit smaller. They change their inventory pretty regularly every time I come down there's new stuff.

[@teartamother1892]

Awesome thank you great inspiration

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Glad you enjoyed 🖤

[@deborahaminogue4196]

Thanks for this great tutorial. I live in Ireland and there is nowhere you can learn how to do this. I will get around to trying one.

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

It's definitely a very fun project 🖤

[@Poetessa2]

This is such a stunning art form that is rarely seen today. Bravo to you for keeping it alive! You are a true artiste!! I just adore everything you did on both shades but if I had to choose, the second is more my personal style but both are gorgeous!! I've been inching my way to this stunning art form by first experimenting on existing shades in my home just to practice and they do look better but I am aching to give this a try finally! Your video was very inspiring!! I've got an idea that involves plumage!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you so much 🖤 I'm obsessed with the plumage idea, that will look so beautiful!

[@TheWishfulsinful]

Where did you get the netting, please? They are beautiful. Thanks so much.

[@hallieshouse13]

These are Beautiful! Just took a peek at your other videos. Why haven’t you got more followers 🤷‍♀️ It’ll come. Looking forward to what you have in store 😊

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Aww thank you so much, glad you enjoyed 🖤

[@Treesusb]

Thanks so much!! Very useful!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🖤

[@Fawn_love]

What kind of fabric do you use? They’re beautiful!

[@melissahayden8526]

I can’t figure out the pleating on a lamp. Granted I just picked up a needle 2 days ago (seriously) but man I don’t know if it is in the measurement, how taught you draw it or what. If you double the width do I also double the height? Help me please!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

It honestly took me a few tries. I didn't double the height just made sure I had a good "seam allowance" as I did with all the other pieces. It's a lot in the pulling the top fabric taught it starts to naturally create these pleats and then you can go in and pin and adjust the pleats before sewing🖤

[@famkehagedoorn4266]

beautiful!! i love your lampshades, they're gorgeous. i want to make one myself too! question, when you sew the fabric to the frame, do you go around the frame wire with your needle or just through the fabric tape at the top? thanks!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Thank you 🖤 You totally should, it was really fun. You pierce through the tape!

[@zoooooooooooooo3]

What type of frame for the red lamp did you buy from the lampshade lady? And what was the dimensions?

[@vyrkolaka]

where do u find more special shapes of lampshades, or how do u make them by urself, like the raw metal thingy haha?

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

I got mine from Mary Maxwell I linked it in the description I think she has 160 different options and styles. Typically they are welded and shipped to you. I have heard that some people can also find some vintage ones on eBay, etsy or FB marketplace if you do a bit of digging 🖤

[@vyrkolaka]

@@NasyaAcostaSmith thanks alot!🖤

[@Nicole-bi9zl]

What store in Connecticut did you go to, I live in CT and my gf just started making lampshades...BTW both us love your videos!!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

Affordable fabrics in Rocky Hill! It's a pretty small store but they have great prices and a good variety. Aww so glad you both enjoy them 🖤

[@Nicole-bi9zl]

And we will DEF check out Affordable Fabrics!

[@Rylie_Camille]

Did you have to use any heat resistant fabrics?

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

I didn't but you certainly can!

[@DiePollie]

Where can i buy These beautiful lamp shade Base? Im from Germany and still cant find any Shop who sell them 😢

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

I'm not sure how much overseas shipping would be from the place I bought mine from (link in the description) but you can search for a German lampshade frame company. Here in the states, they operate via a catalog that you can look through and then call in an order. I would also check eBay or Facebook Marketplace or anything similar. You might have to do some searching but people sell frames there (or old vintage lamps) that you can use!

[@jackierostow9537]

The lampshade did not seem to be lit up at the end of the video. Also, everything is so dark, it's hard to see what you're doing. From what I can see it all looks good but I wish I could see more!

[@NasyaAcostaSmith]

I wanted to show the shade both on and off since they can look quite different. Thank you for your input on the lighting