This isn’t an exhaustive listing of our hand-stained Lumicel™ fiberglass-alternative color palette. Our color selection isn’t static: we periodically modify old colors, drop colors, and add new colors. We can modify most hues, and most colors can be made more or less saturated, warmer or cooler, or lighter or darker (value), according to your needs. Custom colors are available, as well, based on your supplied paint chip, fabric swatch, Pantone number (uncoated), or emailed photo. We hand-mix our stains using non-toxic artist-grade pigments, paints, and mediums.
The swatches above are mostly of the fiberglass we formerly used. The non-fiberglass Lumicel parchment we now use has the same characteristic glow of the fiberglass, but it doesn’t have the “pebbly”(sp?) look; instead, it has long, random strands that evoke some of the original parchments from the 1950s that featured more visible strands in the parchment.
Some color considerations:
Note that a back-lit shade looks different from an unlit shade. A back-lit shade takes on some of the color temperature of the bulb. The more neutral the shade color, the stronger the influence of the bulb color temperature on the shade color will be.
When unlit, shade color is influenced by ambient light. Some of this ambient light will play as reflected light off of the surface of the shade, and some of the ambient light will act as a subtle backlight, as well.
The swatches on this page are scanned images. This is how the colors look when scanned in. Scanned images are front-lit and opaque; they are scanned against a flat surface in the scanner, so there is no ambient light or back-lighting at work.
Demonstrating colors on the web is problematic. On top of the issue of different color representation (back-lit, ambient, scanned), monitors don’t represent colors uniformly. Further, you are looking at the screen in a room with different ambient and practical lighting sources, so colors can look different on your monitor, depending on your lighting set-up. Send us an email with your name, address, and the colors you’re interested in, and we’re happy to send you some swatches.
8 responses to “shade colors”
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I have a hula lamp with a white fringed Fiberglass vellum shade. The shade has split and split. Can you make one of these
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We’ve been accused of being a fringe business, but we don’t do fringe. Sorry!
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Hi,
How do the colors adhere to the lampshade? Do you have to color them individually or do they already have color initially?-
The material is white before we apply the colors and patterns with artist-grade pigments, paints, and mediums.
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Hello Meteor Lights,
I was wondering if you could send me shade color samples of the following colors:
olive, apple-green, rust, butterscotch, caramel, antique white and sand. Thank you very much.-
sure, just need an address.
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I was wondering if you could send me some color swatches? I am interested in olive, apple green, jade, cream, rust and orange. If you have any other greens (darker greens) then please send!
I have lamps with harp size of 11.5 inches – which shades do you recommend? I like the Atomic shape. Thanks!-
With 11.5″ harps, you’ll need shades at least that tall, although you can usually swap in smaller harps into the saddle. As for shade style and diameter, just knowing the harp size alone isn’t enough to give you any advice. Address?
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