May 12th, 2009

Yasutomo, purvevor of much of the origami paper in the US, has this lampshade project up on their website. It’s so clean and beautiful that I had to put it up, but the instructions are a little lacking. http://www.yasutomo.com/project/paperlampshade.htm
Basically, to make it an actual lampshade and not just a ring of paper, you’re going to need to adapt the instructions to whatever lamp you have and find a way to attach it. Here’s how I would do it…






